On Saturday 25 August 2001 11:26, Sander Striker wrote:
> > Why are we spending time trying to optimize pools when we haven't
> > eliminated the
> > malloc/frees in the bucket brigade calls? The miniscule
> > performance improvements
> > you -might- get optimizing pools will be completely obscured by
> > the overhead of the
> > malloc/frees.
> >
> > Bill
>
> Because it also eliminates the locking in the threaded mpm.
> And, I wanted to see if I could squeeze some extra performance
> out of it and make it a bit more readable. I don't know if
> I succeeded in the latter. Or the performance for that matter :)
>
> Btw, why couldn't we use pools in brigades again?
Because of lifetimes. If you allocate buckets and brigades out of pools,
the lifetimes can't change, but bucket lifetimes aren't known at creation
time. And, you can't use the longest possible lifetime, because that
would be a leak.
Ryan
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