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