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Re: Possible inline malloc alternatives: bitmap
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco dot Dijkstra at arm dot com>, "eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu" <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>, Ondřej Bílka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- Cc: nd <nd at arm dot com>, "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 10:57:02 -0800
- Subject: Re: Possible inline malloc alternatives: bitmap
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On 03/04/2018 06:07 AM, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:
> I don't believe it is feasible to profile malloc more accurately, but
> neither is it necessary for a quick evaluation of malloc improvements
> like (de)allocation performance and fragmentation reduction. You
> always need to run the original benchmark to prove the gains are
> real.
100% agreed.
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Cheers,
Carlos.