Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:08:07 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>, Jason Henson <jason@ec.rr.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: malloc vs ptmalloc2 Message-ID: <20050214220807.GF40468@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20050214130450.GA55300@VARK.MIT.EDU> References: <1108277558l.86500l.0l@BARTON> <20050213082128.GA68307@VARK.MIT.EDU> <42108243.9030800@bullseye.apana.org.au> <20050214130450.GA55300@VARK.MIT.EDU>
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David Schultz wrote this message on Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:04 -0500:
> Right, databases, language runtimes, and the small set of other
> applications for which it really matters usually have their own
> special-purpose allocators. I was counting on that when I said
> that replacing malloc() is unlikely to make a big difference.
> (One could argue, of course, that it's unfortunate that
> applications need to do so.)
Hmmm, maybe we should bring the zone API into userland? :) It'd be
nice to have some of the features, like the ctor/dtor's...
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