A short addendum:
On Nov 25 11:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> That means:
>
> - i_all_lf as array incures extra cost only at fork/execve time by
> having to copy additional 64K over to the child process.
If we count the cygheap copy here, we also have to count the
mallocs in the other two cases...
>
> - i_all_lf as malloced pointer in inode_t incures extra cost once
> per created inode (malloc), once per execve (malloc), once per
> deleted inode (free).
Plus an extra 64K user heap copy at fork(2) time.
> - i_all_lf as local variable incures extra cost once per thread
> (malloc), per process, under ideal conditions.
Plus an extra 64K user heap copy at fork(2) time.
Corinna
