On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:17:57PM +0100, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: > And it reminds me on my postings to p5p about glibc being very buggy > up to 2.3 (posted during last October). I came to the conclusion that > perl cannot be benchmarked at all with glibc before v2.3.
I remember your posting, but not the details. Did it relate to glibc's malloc and how long it took to free things? If so, surely benchmarking using perl's malloc would work with earlier glibc's? Anyway, on the two Debian systems I tested: nick@penfold:~/5.8.0-i-g/t$ ls -l /lib/libc.so.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 2 08:46 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.1.so nick@mirth:~$ ls -l /lib/libc.so.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 7 16:20 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.1.so And (obviously) the FreeBSD has BSD's libc Thanks for the reminder. It's only good luck that I (well Richard) had 2.3.1 on them. Nicholas Clark
