optimizing & api-doc

[Lubos Lunak]

On Thursday 16 of January 2003 15:34, Alexander Kellett wrote:
[snip]
> > Make sure you're using a fast malloc() implementation when playing with
> > allocations. The one in current glibc versions is hopelessly slow. I
> > wonder if zone allocators really make noticeable difference when having a
> > good malloc implementation.
>
> umm... i'd hoped that 2.3.1 glibc had gotten the good version.
> i saw a commit of it aggessss ago into glibc but i didn't really
> check its progess wrt branches and tags and stuff.

 No. Last time I checked they were discussing the problems of spinlocks and 
advantages of futexes and so on :-/ . I wonder if it gets better before 
glibc-2.4 . At least SuSE has a patch in the glibc package to move the 
spinlocks to the right place though.

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