dean gaudet wrote:
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Ian Holsman wrote:
dean gaudet wrote:
it removes block_freelist and uses malloc/free for blocks. this is much less expensive than malloc/free on each allocation (amortization).
If you can wait till monday, and you are interested, I'll put it through the ringer on a 8-CPU Sun4500
oh i'm in no rush, i'm being a lazy ass and not even testing these things i'm posting, so thanks for helping :) also, you would definitely want to try the www.hoard.org allocator on a (solaris) machine with that many cpus.
If I remember correctly, he's tried the Hoard allocator on a server that size with ALLOC_USE_MALLOC, and it performed much better than the global free list. But Hoard is LGPL. :-(
--Brian
