Chris Waterson wrote:
> Updated [1] to include allocator performance comparison between glibc
> and Lea-2.7.0pre6. (Still need to collect data for pre7, and have to
> respin data for BSD and Hoard because some of the growth problems have
> purportedly been fixed in the latest releases.) Anyway, bottom line is
> that gtkEmbed page load performance using lea-2.7.0pre6 is ~3% slower
> than with the glibc allocator.
What kind of computer did you do the performance tests on? What I'm most
interested in is the amount of memory it has and if that affects the
results. Since the Doug Lea allocator is supposed to reduce the amount
of memory allocated by the process I would guess that it should win
performance wise as soon as memory becomes an issue.
If the 3% performance penalty is in a computer with plenty of memory, I
would say that it's a small price to pay.
/Daniel
