On Tue, December 12, 2006 10:21 am, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 04:31:04PM +0200, Vlad Galu wrote: >> I've compiled $subj as a shared library that I preload when using >> some test programs and it's been behaving nicely. Are there any plans >> to import it? phkmalloc is painfully slow when freeing numerous small >> objects. > > Not for me. phkmalloc has the nice propery of being tight on space > usage, which is important in some area. It could be done better, but > most applications with very special performance needs have specialised > mallocs anyway, so I don't care that much.
Is there a way to measure the space usage difference? We have hard jemalloc numbers that show a benefit, and I'd like to quantify any counter-arguments.
