Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 11:41:19 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Holger.Kipp@alogis.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl malloc slow? Message-ID: <xzplloi7meo.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <200401061129.i06BTAY75957@alogis.com> (Holger Kipp's message of "Tue, 06 Jan 2004 11:29:05 %2B0000") References: <200401061129.i06BTAY75957@alogis.com>
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Holger Kipp <Holger.Kipp@alogis.com> writes: > Searching on the internet gave the impression that this might be > malloc/FreeBSD related. Any chance of this being resolved? This is basically a bug in Perl (poor choice of algorithm for growing strings). Perl's malloc() implementation knows about and compensates for this bug. FreeBSD's malloc() implementation does not. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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