Re: [opensource-dev] Mesh viewers and tcmalloc issues

2011-10-01 Thread Lance Corrimal
Am Samstag, 1. Oktober 2011 schrieb Henri Beauchamp: first, if this works as advertized... henri, you rock. majorly. I've seen a scorpions live concert on their last world tour rock more but not much. second, two issues: 1. viever_manifest.py needs to be edited to reflect the fact that libtc

Re: [opensource-dev] Mesh viewers and tcmalloc issues

2011-10-01 Thread Zabb65
It is not desirable to let the default allocation engine run under Linux, and possibly Mac. glibc has an incredibly slow allocator for small objects, and tcmalloc was implemented to remedy these situations(This is what I heard, but have not confirmed.) Inventory and a few other items create massive

Re: [opensource-dev] Mesh viewers and tcmalloc issues

2011-10-01 Thread Mike Chase
On 10/01/2011 04:24 PM, Henri Beauchamp wrote: > Greetings, > > I noticed that all the viewers using tcmalloc (mesh viewers under Linux > and Windows, since those use SSE2 and must gain memory-aligned malloc() > and new() calls that their standard library does not provide) suffer > from a serious p

Re: [opensource-dev] Mesh viewers and tcmalloc issues

2011-10-01 Thread Moriz Gupte
Thank you Henri. On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Henri Beauchamp wrote: > Greetings, > > I noticed that all the viewers using tcmalloc (mesh viewers under Linux > and Windows, since those use SSE2 and must gain memory-aligned malloc() > and new() calls that their standard library does not provide

[opensource-dev] Mesh viewers and tcmalloc issues

2011-10-01 Thread Henri Beauchamp
Greetings, I noticed that all the viewers using tcmalloc (mesh viewers under Linux and Windows, since those use SSE2 and must gain memory-aligned malloc() and new() calls that their standard library does not provide) suffer from a serious problem: they never release memory back to the system, mean