| gabriel rosenkoetter on Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:30:21 -0400 |
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On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 02:14:01PM -0400, ian reinhart geiser wrote: > Fastmalloc? > > I guess the profiled the heck out of malloc and found some cases where they > could optimise a malloc for ia32 linux. I guess it is a step between a hack > and genious. I have found it helps things like KHTML and KOffice start up > faster because they allocate large chunks of memory for there DOMs > internally. Um... but malloc, unlike divide, is almost definitely better right than fast. (Name that reference!) I guess, if it doesn't also make the apps unstable, sure, but it still feels worrisome. (Especially the "for IA32 part"; IA32 lacks a good memory partitioning scheme... making use of that, rather than implementing some software-level memory protection, is a good way to make buffer overflows do *really* evil things.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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