Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:14:00 -0600 From: Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Overcommit and calloc() Message-ID: <64003B21ECCAD11185C500805F31EC0302D75907@houston.matchlogic.com>
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From: Kelly Yancey [mailto:kbyanc@alcnet.com] >I have another post on this list which begs the question: if memory given >to us fro sbrk() is already zeroed, why zero it again if we don't have >too.... if we make calloc() smarter, we could save come clock cycles. Because the memory returned from malloc() might be from a previous malloc()/free() and may be dirty. Charles To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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