thread aware malloc

[Ivan Voras]

Niall Douglas wrote:

> KSE threads, FreeBSD v5.3. It's a mixture of process and system 
> threads. As I mentioned in a previous post, it's eight times slower 
> than Linux. See http://www.nedprod.com/Tn/ (scroll down to the 
> screenshots).

Did you test on a "real" FreeBSD & Linux hardware (not VMWare)? Because
VMWare **greatly** pessimizes low-level operations that depend on
atomic/bus locks, CMPXCHG & similar operations that are used in
synchronization, context switches & multithreading, and IO operations
are also very very slow compared to real hardware. It simply cannot be
used to do benchmarks on (except if you're benchmarking vmware, not the
guest system :) )