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Date:      Thu, 08 Jan 2004 11:41:19 +0100
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Holger.Kipp@alogis.com
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: perl malloc slow?
Message-ID:  <xzplloi7meo.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200401061129.i06BTAY75957@alogis.com> (Holger Kipp's message of "Tue, 06 Jan 2004 11:29:05 %2B0000")
References:  <200401061129.i06BTAY75957@alogis.com>

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Holger Kipp <Holger.Kipp@alogis.com> writes:
> Searching on the internet gave the impression that this might be
> malloc/FreeBSD related. Any chance of this being resolved?

This is basically a bug in Perl (poor choice of algorithm for growing
strings).  Perl's malloc() implementation knows about and compensates
for this bug.  FreeBSD's malloc() implementation does not.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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