On 4 Dec, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
> :
>>Can someone email me with a brief explaination of this M_ZERO path?
>>I see it is about something to do with memory (malloc, bcopy, etc.)
>>
>> Thanks Jessem.
>
> Since a majority of malloc(9) uses immediately bzero(9) the allocation,
> I added an flag to malloc(9) so one can ask for a zero'ed allocation.
>
> This saves a couple hundred calls to bzero(9), improves cache-locality
> and generally improves code readability as a result.
>
> It will also allow us to operate a "idle-time-malloc(9)- zeroing-daemon"
> later.
>
Very cool!
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