Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:47:38 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Jason Evans <jasone@freebsd.org> Cc: gnn@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Differences in malloc between 6 and 7? Message-ID: <18104.1204660058@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:14:15 PST." <47CD9F87.4000509@freebsd.org>
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In message <47CD9F87.4000509@freebsd.org>, Jason Evans writes: >gnn@freebsd.org wrote: >It's worth mentioning that the benchmark is of marginal use, due to a >simple (but common) flaw. At a minimum, a malloc benchmark should touch >all allocated memory at least once. Otherwise, the benchmark is IMO too >far removed from reality to measure anything of value, [...] A point I belive I also made in my phkmalloc paper 10+ years ago, so there really is no excuse... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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