Shawn Walker wrote: > 2008/6/24 Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Technically there was an discussion on the last OpenSolaris.org summit > > to check whether it may sense to replace libc's malloc implementation > > with the libast one since it's faster, works better with small > > allocations, scales better up to very large memory allocations, avoids > > fragmentation for long-running application (something which hit > > FireFox+Mozilla/Seamonkey and other applications _badly_), has builtin > > libumem-like memory checking functionality and is async-signal safe (not > > the one currently in OS/Net, that was a new development for the one > > which the ksh93-integration update1 will deliver). The only problem so > > far was that I didn't had time to take a look yet... ;-( > > How does libast's malloc compared to jemalloc that Firefox 3 uses on Windows?
*shrug* ... I never did any comparisation between these two malloc versions... ;-/ ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL <currently fluctuating> (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
