I've had the patch applied for two days now and have not seen any ill efects. This is a Thinkpad T410 running snapshots.
Before, youtube was unwatchable. Sound would continue normally while video would freeze for long stretches, often over 10 seconds. Its not perfect now, but its very nearly so when not fullscreen. It does seem that cpu usage of firefox is also significantly reduced, and is generally snappier. Thank you! -via On 22:46 Fri 22 Jan , Mark Kettenis wrote: > Firefox makes a lot of concurrent malloc(3) calls. The locking to > make malloc(3) thread-safe is a bit...suboptimal. This diff makes > things better by using a mutex instead of spinlock. If you're running > Firefox you want to try it; it makes video watchable on some machines. > If you're not running Firefox you want to try it; to make sure it > doesn't break things. > > Enjoy, > > Mark
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