On Wednesday 29 October 2008 09:49:02 Bernd Schmidt wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > > There are _three_ allocators right now, MALLOC, MALLOC_SIMPLE, and > > MALLOC_STANDARD. Is your objection that MALLOC does everything > > MALLOC_SIMPLE does (including nommu support), so there's no real need for > > MALLOC_SIMPLE? > > Simple = plain bad in this case. It has massive overhead in space and > time. We shouldn't offer our users something that is quite this broken. > > On Blackfin, we use MALLOC, which is also reasonably small and vastly > better than MALLOC_SIMPLE.
Now that MALLOC is working again, I have no attachment to MALLOC_SIMPLE. At this point, I don't think bernhard's interested in removing anything from 0.9.30, but if you bring this up again after the release I have no objection to removing code we don't need. Rob _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uclibc
