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Subject: Re: perl malloc slow?
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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.

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