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Date:      Wed, 6 Mar 1996 13:44:15 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: malloc upgrade.
Message-ID:  <199603061244.NAA08274@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <199603052355.KAA20299@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Mar 6, 96 10:24:57 am

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> Luigi Rizzo stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > I have seen that the malloc in the Feb.96 snap is much less hungry
> > than the one up until 2.1R. In order to get the full advantages,
> > is it enough to rebuild libc.so.X.Y with the new malloc code, or
> > there is more ?
> 
> Just grab malloc.c out of -current and drop it into the relevant place
> and rebuild libc.  I've been using it for a while now with no adverse
> side effects (other than it forcing me to be tidier with my malloc usage 8)

Is there any reason why libc is built (by default) with -O rather
than -O2 ?

	Luigi
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Luigi Rizzo                     Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
email: luigi@iet.unipi.it       Universita' di Pisa
tel: +39-50-568533              via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy)
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