> On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, David Reid wrote: > > > Did we ever get anywhere with changing the buckets code to use sms? > > I've still got some half-written patches laying around. I put them aside > awhile back because I was busy with other things, because SMS was in a > state of grand flux, and because Brian's gprof twiddlings showed that the > use of malloc in the buckets code was not the #1 performance killer I'd > thought it would be. Later discussions by Dean et al revealed that recent > mallocs seem to have made great strides in the performance arena. <shrug> > Anyhow, I'll get back to the buckets SMS thing, because I still want to > try it... after Apache 2 beta 2. =-) >
malloc/free is a performance killer on many operating systems. I would be completely happy using pools where possible and a malloc/free SMS for the bucket code. Bill
