This is the mail archive of the
libc-alpha@sourceware.org
mailing list for the glibc project.
Re: malloc() wastes 50%...
On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:50:28 -0400, John Moser wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:41 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> mtrace replaces sbrk(), malloc(), free(), realloc(), memalign(),
> valloc(), calloc(), and cfree() with wrappers to the native allocator.
Presumably you're seeing heap fragmentation then, which is indeed a
problem but you need a compacting GC to fix it and they have their own
problems ...