On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Ranier Vilela wrote:

Hi,

> There are alternative to dlmalloc, ptmalloc3 is out here
> http://www.malloc.de/malloc/ptmalloc3-current.tar.gz
> "*New ptmalloc3 release May 31st, 2006!*
> 
> Here <http://www.malloc.de/malloc/ptmalloc3-current.tar.gz> you can
> download the third version of *ptmalloc* (C source code), a fast,
> memory-efficient implementation of *malloc* for Unix systems.
> *ptmalloc* is based on code by Doug Lea <http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/>
> and was extended for use with multiple threads (especially on SMP
> systems).

PTMALLOC is in 99% original DLMALLOC code with some small modifications
to improve performance in MT programs but we also have it when Harbour
is compiled with HB_FM_DLMT_ALLOC macro.

> On Linux <http://www.linux.org/> systems, *ptmalloc* has been put to
> work for years as part of the GNU C library
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html>."
> Maybe is a better swicth dlmalloc?
> Ptmalloc is based on dlmalloc.

It is DLMALLOC with really minor modifications so for us it will not
create any significant difference.

best regards,
Przemek
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