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Subject: Re: Memory allocation performance
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Robert Watson wrote:
> Basically, the goal would be 
> to make the pcpu cache FIFO as much as possible as that maximizes the 
> chances that the newly allocated object already has lines in the cache.  

Why FIFO? I think LIFO (stack) should be better for this goal as the 
last freed object has more chances to be still present in cache.

-- 
Alexander Motin