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Subject: Re: Differences in malloc between 6 and 7? 
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In message <47CD9F87.4000509@freebsd.org>, Jason Evans writes:
>gnn@freebsd.org wrote:

>It's worth mentioning that the benchmark is of marginal use, due to a 
>simple (but common) flaw.  At a minimum, a malloc benchmark should touch 
>all allocated memory at least once.  Otherwise, the benchmark is IMO too 
>far removed from reality to measure anything of value, [...]

A point I belive I also made in my phkmalloc paper 10+ years ago, so
there really is no excuse...

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