Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:41:07 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl malloc slow? Message-ID: <20040109004107.GA64107@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <xzplloi7meo.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <200401061129.i06BTAY75957@alogis.com> <xzplloi7meo.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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--EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:41:19AM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > 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? >=20 > 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. I heard someone say it was fixed in perl 5.<mumble> (8?) Kris --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE//fijWry0BWjoQKURAphOAJ9gmOtOiBQFUQEIgX4u5BGD7gLxkQCgzF6s YwV6qtAipLSoKaGmejH5E1k= =6MTp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU--
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