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From: roberto@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: Alternative malloc ?
Date: 23 Jan 1997 14:15:47 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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In article <5bo0vq$8hd@halon.vggas.com>,
James Youngman <JYoungman@vggas.com> wrote:
> > Can someone recommend an alternative malloc() that is fast (the
> >program does a lot of malloc() calls, it is an interactive interpreted
> >language), and yet does not have this power of two behavior ?
>
> Try the malloc() from recent versions of GNU glibc...
This particular malloc have been available for more than a year in the port
system in devel/dlmalloc. You also have another malloc in ports
(devel/libmalloc is my memory is right from M. Moraes).
The upgrade to 2.2 when it is out is a good idea too: you get phkmalloc
(you can do it now by grabbing a malloc.c from -CURRENT).
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