Am 13.01.2007 um 10:45 schrieb Gustaf Neumann:
Fault was, that i did not read the README (i read the frist one) and compiled (a) without -DTCL_THREADS .
In that case, fault was that on FreeBSD you need to explictly put "-pthread" when linking the test program, regardless of the fact that libtcl8.4.so was already linked with it. That, only, did the trick. Speed was (as expected and still not clear why) at least 2 times better than anything else. In some rough cases it was _significantly_ faster. But... I believe we should not fixate ourselves to the speed of the allocator. It was not our intention to make something faster. Our intention was to release memory early enough so we don't bloat the system as a long-running process. I admit, speed of the code is always the most interesting and tempting issue for engineers, but in this case it was really the memory savings for long-running programs that we were after. Having said that, I must again repeat that we'd like to get some field-experience with the allocator before we do any further steps. This means that we are thankful for any feedback. Cheers, zoran
