On Oct 1, 2013, at 3:35 PM, Brent Fulgham <bfulg...@apple.com> wrote:
> So are you proposing to use the system allocator on Windows? Or would we keep > using the existing FastMalloc implementation? > > The current malloc logic has been the source of a number of mysterious > crashes on Windows, so reverting to the system allocator might be a good > thing for stability. I don’t know what the potential performance > ramifications would be. They would be bad. The default malloc on Windows is very slow. - Maciej > > -Brent > > On Oct 1, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Geoffrey Garen <gga...@apple.com> wrote: > >>> Apple's Windows port uses FastMalloc and the last measurements we took show >>> it to be a large performance gain over the default Windows malloc >>> implementation. >> >> I believe those measurements were taken 5 Windows versions ago. >> >>> While this port is only used by iTunes these days, we still would not want >>> to regress its performance. Can the new allocator be made to work with >>> Windows? >> >> The set of porting tasks is the same set I outlined for GTK. >> >> The Windows port is missing many performance features, including tiled >> scrolling, LLInt, parallel garbage collection, DFG, and FTL. Given those >> other major missing pieces, I don’t think this piece is worth the porting >> time. >> >> Geoff >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org >> https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
