Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 20:32:31 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Jason Evans <jasone@freebsd.org> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple malloc(3)s (was Re: HEADS DOWN) Message-ID: <68825.1179174751@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 May 2007 12:19:54 MST." <4648B65A.2040803@freebsd.org>
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In message <4648B65A.2040803@freebsd.org>, Jason Evans writes: >Robert Watson wrote: >In my opinion, keeping only one malloc implementation in the base system >was the right approach. Doing so put a lot of extra pressure on >jemalloc to handle all conceivable edge cases, rather than punting here >and there. 100% agreement from here. Poul-Henning PS: Threading libraries (he said knowingly) "nudge nudge, wink wink!" -- 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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