On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 07:11:37PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 12:09:09PM -0700, Andrew Fresh wrote: > > > I opened a ticket with upstream to use OpenBSD's malloc by default. > > > > https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=122000 > > > > Perl was setup to use perl's malloc on OpenBSD by default in 2010. > > > > https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=75742 > > > > > > The perl in OpenBSD base has always used OpenBSD's malloc, and I believe > > that is what OpenBSD users will expect, even building perl themselves. > > > > If you have opinions that may sway the perl5-porters, please chime in on > > the above ticket #122000. > > It's a bit say they never reacted to my comments in bug 75742. > Good you are taking action,
Actually, the code of perl is slightly annoying, because it doesn't have any emergency memory reserve unless you're using their own malloc... This is something I've wanted to look at, but haven't had the time to do. It means having a bit of leeway when you run out of memory... Might come in handy in order to let pkg_add clean up a wee little bit before crashing...
