jemalloc?

Kevin L. Kane kevin.kane at gmail.com
Tue Dec 12 08:30:48 PST 2006


For what its worth, rather than just saying which one is "better" and
forcing that option on users, I would like to see both (and more
options) implemented and have a way to select between them at compile
time or wherever is convienent.
-Kevink

On 12/12/06, Justin C. Sherrill <justin at shiningsilence.com> wrote:
On Tue, December 12, 2006 10:21 am, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 04:31:04PM +0200, Vlad Galu wrote:
>>   I've compiled $subj as a shared library that I preload when using
>> some test programs and it's been behaving nicely. Are there any plans
>> to import it? phkmalloc is painfully slow when freeing numerous small
>> objects.
>
> Not for me. phkmalloc has the nice propery of being tight on space
> usage, which is important in some area. It could be done better, but
> most applications with very special performance needs have specialised
> mallocs anyway, so I don't care that much.
Is there a way to measure the space usage difference?  We have hard
jemalloc numbers that show a benefit, and I'd like to quantify any
counter-arguments.



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Kevin L. Kane
kevin.kane at gmail.com




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