Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 10:43:54 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> To: Erik Manders <erik@il.ft.HSE.NL>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A better malloc for freebsd Message-ID: <199505231643.KAA08194@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: Erik Manders <erik@il.ft.HSE.NL> "A better malloc for freebsd" (May 23, 5:34pm)
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> if (or when) the malloc in 950412-SNAP will > be replaced by 2.0.5 or 2.1. I'm getting tired of compiling all big > user programs (xv, tin, etc...) with gnumalloc. I doubt very highly that the malloc in 2.0.5 or 2.1 will *not* be the one in the tree now. However, I spent a little bit of time cleaning up Doug Lea's version and will integrate it into my local test tree after the 2.0.5 release and run with it in a production environment at that time as a replacement for the stock malloc. Hopefully I'll be able to wring out any problems that might still be in programs that depend on the current BSD malloc implementation. (Another one was fixed last week) by doing this, and also get some performance improvements at the same time. 2.1 is supposed to be a very stable release, and changing the system malloc routine is something that could cause too many potential problems. Nate
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