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Date:      Sat, 29 Apr 1995 16:02:59 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de>
To:        Kai.Vorma@hut.fi
Cc:        nate@trout.sri.MT.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: A better malloc() for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199504291403.QAA02341@knobel.GUN.de>
In-Reply-To: <199504121134.OAA24547@vinkku.hut.fi> from "Kai Vorma" at Apr 12, 95 02:34:05 pm

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> Nate Williams writes:
>  > 
>  > I'm in agreement with you.  The current malloc implementation is very
>  > fast, but I think replacing malloc would make the system faster since
>  > there would be less swapping due to less memory use.
>  > 
>  > If you could get some hard numbers re: performance I think we might have
>  > more to stand on when the time comes to integrate it into the system.
> 
> Here you have some numbers. I think all mallocs are fast enough
> although dlmalloc is superior in simumalloc/1.

And ? Is the new malloc already part of -current ?

Would love to see such a space saving and fast malloc.

	Andreas ///

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