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Re: Malloc timeline.
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>
- Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 17:25:03 -0500
- Subject: Re: Malloc timeline.
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- References: <20131217120834 dot GA29241 at domone dot podge> <201312172158 dot 04390 dot vapier at gentoo dot org> <20131219182111 dot GA26600 at domone dot podge>
On 12/19/2013 01:21 PM, OndÅej BÃlka wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 09:58:03PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Tuesday 17 December 2013 07:08:34 OndÅej BÃlka wrote:
>>> As there were considerable discussion how improve malloc we should
>>> decide what is feasible for 2.19 and what for 2.20.
>>
>> the only thing appropriate for 2.19 at this point in time i think are bug fixes
>> (and perhaps style clean ups).
>> -mike
>
> I was mostly interested at what should be marked as considered for
> removal.
>
> a performance could be improved a bit with cleanups as we could simplify
> a hot path for malloc/calloc.
I agree with Mike and others, that even for 2.19 we don't have enough time
to agree on what will or will not be removed. For 2.20 we will have time.
Cheers,
Carlos.