From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 22:08:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B2CA16A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:08:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F1743D1D for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:08:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (qmail 19667 invoked from network); 14 Feb 2005 22:08:08 -0000 Received: from gate.funkthat.com (HELO hydrogen.funkthat.com) ([69.17.45.168]) (envelope-sender ) by mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 14 Feb 2005 22:08:08 -0000 Received: from hydrogen.funkthat.com (cncvkb@localhost.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1])j1EM88GH040632; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:08:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.funkthat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j1EM87QB040631; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:08:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:08:07 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Andrew MacIntyre , Jason Henson , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <20050214220807.GF40468@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew MacIntyre , Jason Henson , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <1108277558l.86500l.0l@BARTON> <20050213082128.GA68307@VARK.MIT.EDU> <42108243.9030800@bullseye.apana.org.au> <20050214130450.GA55300@VARK.MIT.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050214130450.GA55300@VARK.MIT.EDU> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html Subject: Re: malloc vs ptmalloc2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:08:09 -0000 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... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."