On Sat May 30 22:02:11 PDT 2015, quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
> On Sat May 30 21:43:03 PDT 2015, k...@sciops.net wrote:
> > Quoting arn...@skeeve.com:
> > 
> > > BWK has said that malloc affects the performance of his awk; I think
> > > it's in his README file.
> > 
> > Yes, it was explained to me that plan 9 malloc does useful things instead
> > of just shoving things into the first available hole like APE malloc.
> 
> instead of guessing, you could see if the pool library's checks are really a 
> bottleneck.
> it is straightforward to add header and tail magic and the callerpc stuff to 
> ape
> malloc and run the comparsion again.
> 
> otherwise, it seems far more likely that the problem is that quicklicks are
> faster than tree allocators.

also, ape %f/%g are much faster than the native version.

- erik

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