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Date:      Thu, 7 Mar 1996 11:20:31 +1100 (EST)
From:      Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Before and after the cure (was Re: malloc upgrade)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.91.960307111717.8508A-100000@tulpi.interconnect.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199603061602.RAA08501@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> I'd like to suggest people who don't have memory to burn to upgrade their
> libc.so to use the new malloc. There's simply no comparison when programs
> malloc() small chunks of memory. Note in particular the awful behaviour

I dont suppose this includes a fix for the evil way XFree refuses to 
release memory. (That one is really starting to bother me.)

Anthony



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