>On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 12:47:29PM +0700, John Indra wrote: > >> And to clarify things... I don't know what's wrong with malloc() in -CURRENT >> and -STABLE (and I don't even know whether it's even "wrong"). All I want is >> to let the Perl maintainer in -CURRENT and -STABLE to compile the stock Perl >> with its own malloc library, thus Perl in FreeBSD doesn't suffer from this >> kind of slowness. > >phkmalloc is generally pretty efficient..how do you know that >switching to the perl internal malloc to optimize this particular >usage pattern won't severely pessimize others?
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