On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Robert Clipsham<[email protected]> wrote: > Jarrett Billingsley wrote: >> >> Wow, just.. wow. I can't believe you got it working :D Thanks so >> much; I'm sure other people will find this useful as well! >> >> At long last, I was able to test it! And... amazingly, it was 50% >> slower than the default malloc/free :\ I even compiled it with >> optimization enabled. >> >> In disbelief, I tried it in my virtualized linux box with GCC as well, >> and got a similar result, so it doesn't seem to be DMC's fault.. >> >> Hm. Maybe it's just supposed to be faster for multithreaded code. > > Maybe you could try one of the many other malloc replacements? I believe > firefox switched to jemalloc, I have no real knowledge of this sort of thing > though. A quick google seems to come up with quite a few "fast" > replacements, including one from Google. >
I'll give some of them a shot. Hopefully getting others to compile with DMC won't be nearly as much of an adventure :P
