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From: Holger Kipp <Holger.Kipp@alogis.com>
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Subject: Re: perl malloc slow?
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Kris Kennaway (kris@obsecurity.org) wrote: 
>
>> 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.

>I heard someone say it was fixed in perl 5.<mumble> (8?)

As I now know, at least the perl(5.8.2) port is build with perl malloc as
default.

Sorry for starting this thread - but I learned a lot about malloc this way ;-)
and with perl v5.8.2 performance is very good again!

Thanx for all who replied!


Regards,
Holger