On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 11:56:36AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2020/08/31 08:39, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> > A question from Theo made me think about realloc and come up with a
> > particular bad case for performance. I do not know if it happens in
> > practice, but it was easy to create a test program to hit the case.
>
> Not very scientific testing (a single attempt at building one port), but
> this seems to help quite a lot when compiling programs written in rust.
> I encourage others to test the diff :-)
>
It turned out this particular case was a fluke. But I'm still very
interested in cases where it does matter and tests in general as well.
-Otto
