Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:56:28 +0000 From: Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl malloc slow? Message-ID: <20040109135628.GA33497@eborcom.com> In-Reply-To: <20040109004107.GA64107@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200401061129.i06BTAY75957@alogis.com> <xzplloi7meo.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040109004107.GA64107@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:41:07PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > 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?) http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=15713&cid=24485 suggests it was fixed in Perl 5.8.1. Tom
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