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> I think you may be reading too much into the malloc manpage. When it > mentions the use of per-thread small-object caches to avoid locking it's > talking about performance, not thread safety. Allocations of all sizes > are thread-safe, the library just assumes that huge allocations are rare > enough that it doesn't use extra per-thread resources to avoid locking > for them, it just uses locking for huge blocks. > > -- Ian > Good to note all allocations are thread safe in FreeBSD. Is it by some standard that malloc should be thread safe regardless the OS (BSDs, Linux, Windows, Android, etc)? Unga _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
