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Date:      Tue, 7 Sep 2004 10:17:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Thoughts about malloc(3) and threading. 
Message-ID:  <20040907101447.U67477@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <47444.1094470317@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <47444.1094470317@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <xzpllfnve4l.fsf@dwp.des.no>, =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=
>  writes:
> >Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> >> So, short version of my position is:
> >> [...]
> >
> >you forgot the most important part:
> >
> >"no matter how hard you think it will be to write a good paralell
> >allocator, it will be harder than you think"
>
> Shhhh!  you shouldn't have told them that yet.

*snicker*

Sounds like a project for a bored college student looking for a thesis.
Do you know of any references to research papers on the topic?  Would some
of UMA's fundamentals apply?

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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