Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 20:25:05 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: erich@lodgenet.com, brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new malloc/libc... Message-ID: <199603131925.UAA23198@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <22360.826734831@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Mar 13, 96 04:33:32 pm
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> The malloc in 2.1 doesn't do >anything< to conserve memory, a fact than Not only that, it actually tends to allocate a full page for every small block (from ~ upwards) that you malloc(), and this just to hold a 32-bit value. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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