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Cc: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: New libc malloc patch
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Jon Dama wrote:

>I looked into the issues and limitations with phkmalloc several months ago
>and concluded that simply adopting ptmalloc2 (the linux malloc) was the
>better approach--notably it is willing to draw from both brk and mmap, and
>it also implements per-thread arenas.
>  
>
Hi Jon,

Is there any chance to test the jamalloc and ptmalloc2 ? I would
like to see next ten years, we will use a best performance memory
allocator. :-)

David Xu