Am 06.04.2005 um 22:19 schrieb Vlad Seryakov:


Is memory contention that big so new memory allocator is needed, i never looked into that and do not have clear picture why this zippy appeared in the first place. What kind of numbers we are talking about comparing
zippy and regular mallocs?

Oh, it can be actually many times faster... especially with reasonable number
of threads (10-20).
There are some very nice comparisons of MT memory allocators on:

  http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/multiproc/multiproc.html



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