Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:51:20 +0000 From: Holger Kipp <Holger.Kipp@alogis.com> To: kris@obsecurity.org, des@des.no Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl malloc slow? Message-ID: <200401141151.i0EBpPY94333@alogis.com>
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Kris Kennaway (kris@obsecurity.org) 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?) As I now know, at least the perl(5.8.2) port is build with perl malloc as default. Sorry for starting this thread - but I learned a lot about malloc this way ;-) and with perl v5.8.2 performance is very good again! Thanx for all who replied! Regards, Holger
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