On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:03:35 -0500, Pedro F. Giffuni <giffunip@asme.org> wrote:
> Hi;
>
> JIC you are not following freebsd-hackers, there was an interesting
> discussion about the linux thread-aware malloc that is under a BSD
> license. This link comes from an older thread:
>
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?420BB1FF.11156.68F6CEC
>
> It does look interesting (at least for SMP), but it looks like some
> kernel support will be required.
>
> cheers,
>
> Pedro.
>
>
I think Greg Lehey recently did some benchmarks that showed PHK malloc
greatly out performs ptmalloc.
--
-David
Steven David Rhodus
<drhodus@machdep.com>