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Date:      Thu, 7 Mar 1996 12:20:52 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        ahill@interconnect.com.au (Anthony Hill)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Before and after the cure (was Re: malloc upgrade)
Message-ID:  <199603070150.MAA27990@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960307120025.8508C-100000@tulpi.interconnect.com.au> from "Anthony Hill" at Mar 7, 96 12:08:05 pm

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Anthony Hill stands accused of saying:
> 
> On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> > The XFree people are working on a custom allocator specifically tuned to
> > the way that X uses memory.  You can build the XFree servers using the
> > stock malloc (the current distributions), with gnumalloc (which is better)
> > or with phkmalloc (the 'new' malloc Luigi is talking about).
> 
> Unfortunatly, being fairly new to this stuff, I dont know how to go about 
> building XFree using a different malloc. It seems as though lots of 

Grab the XFree86 server build kit, and edit the Makefile.  The buildkit's
on the CD.

> Anthony

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