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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 04:02:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>,
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Subject: Re: New kernel allocation API 
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On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Julian Elischer wrote:

>
> I know several consumers where the size is not known or would be
> expensive to calculate on free.
>

I bet there are 10x as many that do:

foo = malloc(sizeof(*foo));

Which could just as easily do:

free(foo, sizeof(*foo));

Optimize for the common case.  It will make the allocator MUCH faster.

Cheers,
Jeff


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