Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 17:29:34 +0300 From: Kai Vorma <vode@snakemail.hut.fi> To: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu> Cc: FreeBSD hackerlist <FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com> Subject: Re: dlmalloc Message-ID: <199507041429.RAA19837@vinkku.hut.fi> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91j.950704051121.9067B-100000@saul1.u.washington.edu> References: <Pine.OSF.3.91j.950704051121.9067B-100000@saul1.u.washington.edu>
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John Utz writes:
> I recall reading a report on this list of someone using dlmalloc ( doug
> lea malloc? ) with good success.
I have been using it about 2-3 months (I replaced libc/stdlib/malloc.c
with Doug Lea's malloc-2.5.3b.c and then did make world). So far only
two system programs has failed and both have been fixed some time ago.
I also use it with XFree86-3.1.1 (X-server and binaries) with very
good success. Performance is far better than with system malloc
altough GNU-malloc is sometimes better still.
Perhaps someone would commit it to 2.2 developement branch so that
more people would test it..
..vode
PS. There is a note in the comments that it is preliminary version and
unreleased. I asked the author and he said that it is very stable
and he has just forgotten to lift the comment and increment the
version number.
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