This one time, at band camp, Ian Wienand wrote: >On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 10:06:10PM +0930, Glen Turner wrote: >> Can't say I'm shocked. Think about the accounting overhead of what >> you're trying to do. You're hitting some accounting data structure >> that doesn't scale above a few million entries. > >I don't think that's what is happening here. I did 2GiB worth of 160 >byte mallocs and timed them all, it ends up looking like > >http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/~ianw/malloc-test/malloc.png
I hate to say it, but I think Oscar pinned the tail on the donkey with the link to high memory on 32 bit x86. _______________________________________________ coders mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders
