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From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>
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On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:47:02PM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:
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> Is somebody already working on thread-optimizing malloc to have less 
> contention, avoid false sharing issues, etc.?

Niall Douglas mentioned that FreeBSD might want to look at ptmalloc2
which is used in Linux:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-threads/2005-February/002848.html

but I don't know if anyone is actively looking at this for FreeBSD.

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Craig Rodrigues        
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