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Date:      Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:02:17 -0800
From:      Jason Evans <jasone@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Andrey Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib malloc.c
Message-ID:  <6B47D688-0A7D-421F-9830-9493EC375307@FreeBSD.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <20060127025150.GA57825@nagual.pp.ru>
References:  <200601270236.k0R2ai2x067283@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060127025150.GA57825@nagual.pp.ru>

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On Jan 26, 2006, at 6:51 PM, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> I worry about my system performance. Could you please make all  
> statistics
> and debug code conditional, debending on some flags which could be  
> set as
> malloc options? Even in case this is a test period now, some people
> perhaps don't want some tests. It is much easy to turn some tests  
> off via
> malloc options than to comment out manually corresponding malloc.c  
> defines
> after each cvsup.

Unfortunately, run-time checks for the debugging features are  
expensive, since the debugging code is scattered throughout  
malloc.c.  This pretty much mandates compile-time configuration, for  
performance reasons.

I can disable statistics and debugging, if there's a general  
consensus to do so.  How much performance difference is the debug/ 
stats code making for you?  I've only been disabling debug/stats for  
benchmarking purposes, so I don't have a good feel for how much it  
impacts overall system performance.

Thanks,
Jason




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