RE: Overcommit and calloc()

[Charles Randall]

From: Kelly Yancey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>I have another post on this list which begs the question: if memory given
>to us fro sbrk() is already zeroed, why zero it again if we don't have
>too.... if we make calloc() smarter, we could save come clock cycles.

Because the memory returned from malloc() might be from a previous
malloc()/free() and may be dirty.

Charles


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