On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:38:01AM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:29:11PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > Don't sweat system malloc behaviour all that much at the moment. We are
> > going to be completely taking over memory allocation internally at some
> > point reasonably soon, so as long as what you do doesn't crash we should be
> > fine. (It's OK to leak at this point--either the GC system or the Big
>
> Doug Lea's malloc is in the public domain:
>
> http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html
>
> I don't remember whether that's quadsafe code but the first person to
It is.
Further digging found this comparison discussing malloc and gc
implementations:
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~zorn/Malloc.html
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