Throwing in a "crazy" idea: Replace the default malloc with Google's performance tools tcmalloc. Not the tcmalloc_minimal that anyone can preload, but the full implementation.
-Alex On Nov 22, 2013 3:09 AM, "John Marino" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/21/2013 20:00, Justin Sherrill wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:03 AM, John Marino <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > > > > > This is a good list to have. It's all maintenance material, though. > > Updates from other BSDs. That's valuable, because it saves us a lot of > > labor, but doesn't anybody have some crazy ideas? > > > I would not classify much of this work as maintenance. > > The semaphores is pthreads work -- nobody has touched threads in years > from what I can see. Not trivial. > > Bringing in llvm/clang/libc++ is definitely not trivial. It a huge, > complex task. > > the new USB has never reached production so that's not maintenance either. > > OSS/ALSA - When was the last time somebody in dragonfly touched audio? > > > Sure there's room for "crazy" but this list is plenty challenging. >
