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Date:      Thu, 05 Apr 2001 19:12:26 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/devel Makefile ports/devel/dlmalloc Makefile  distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr pkg-message pkg-plist  ports/devel/dlmalloc/files Makefile README.FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <3ACC996A.98218FBE@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <22779.986485542@critter>

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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <3ACC91AB.2A183123@FreeBSD.org>, Maxim Sobolev writes:
>
> >> >  Moreover, due to not very clear for me reasons Python benchmark (pybench)
> >> >  is about 60% (!!!) faster with this allocator comparing to the libc one.
> >> >  Obviously we should investigate this further and if there is no error
> >> >  then tune either Python or our own malloc.
> >>
> >> Did you measure this with the right malloc flags for the libc version ?
> >>
> >> Remember that -current runs with malloc flags "AJ" as default, that is not
> >> fair if it comes to performance comparisons (but it does wonders for finding
> >> bugs :-)
> >
> >I don't use default value:
> >
> >$ ls -l /etc/malloc.conf
> >lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  7 Jul 22  2000 /etc/malloc.conf@ -> HRajuxz
>
> I think you should use 'r' for performance comparisons...

Bah, you are as usually right, however even with this settings python+dlmalloc in
-current is about 10-12% faster (only 5% in -stable).

-Maxim


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