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To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
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Subject: Re: Reason for doing malloc / bzero over calloc (performance)?
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Ivan Voras wrote:

> youshi10@u.washington.edu wrote:
>
>> Hmmm... I wonder what the Mach kernel in OSX does to allocate memory
>> then. I'll have to take a look at OpenDarwin's source sometime and see
>> what it does.
>
> Following the link chain from the benchmark link posted in this thread
> I've come to the information that it's similar to -CURRENT: small
> allocations are carved from the local pool, big ones from prezeroed
> pages (from kernel).
>
>

Do you know if that's with malloc or calloc? What portion of the source demonstrates this?

-Garrett