ptmalloc2

[David Rhodus]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:03:35 -0500, Pedro F. Giffuni <giffunip at xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> JIC you are not following freebsd-hackers, there was an interesting
> discussion about the linux thread-aware malloc that is under a BSD
> license. This link comes from an older thread:
> 
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?420BB1FF.11156.68F6CEC
> 
> It does look interesting (at least for SMP), but it looks like some
> kernel support will be required.
> 
> cheers,
> 
>      Pedro.
> 
> 

I think Greg Lehey recently did some benchmarks that showed PHK malloc
greatly out performs ptmalloc.

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                                            -David
                                            Steven David Rhodus
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