On Sep 29, 2005, at 3:11 PM, Krzysztof Kowalczyk wrote:
On Windows, for example, malloc() is thread-safe by default so unless there is a measurable speed gain in using the replacement, there's little value in using something else.
I guess I didn't explain the change very well. We already had a version of malloc that was faster than most system malloc implementations (definitively measured as such at least on MacOS X and Symbian). However, it was not threadsafe, so it was used only in selected places where we were sure it was safe. The new one is as fast, but threadsafe, so it's ok to just indiscriminately use it everywhere, and this leads to a speedup on OS X. The MacOS X system malloc is in fact threadsafe and I imagine that is also the case on other operating systems.
It sounds like using a prefix file is probably a viable option, but I'd like to hear from the Nokia guys first.
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