On Mon, 06 Oct 2008, Mindaugas Kavaliauskas wrote: Hi Mindaugas,
> here are some words about dlmalloc and multi-thread: > Thread-safety: NOT thread-safe unless USE_LOCKS defined > When USE_LOCKS is defined, each public call to malloc, free, > etc is surrounded with either a pthread mutex or a win32 > spinlock (depending on WIN32). This is not especially fast, and > can be a major bottleneck. It is designed only to provide > minimal protection in concurrent environments, and to provide a > basis for extensions. If you are using malloc in a concurrent > program, consider instead using nedmalloc > (http://www.nedprod.com/programs/portable/nedmalloc/) or > ptmalloc (See http://www.malloc.de), which are derived > from versions of this malloc. I know about it but it does not mean that default C compilers MM mangers are better. In all tests done so far it looks that they didn't. So far only the MM in SuseLinux seems to be well scalable. I haven't tested other Linux distros with multi CPU machine yet. Best regards, Przemek _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
