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Re: malloc: performance improvements and bugfixes
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: JÃrn Engel <joern at purestorage dot com>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh dot poyarekar at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>, "GNU C. Library" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Joern Engel <joern at purestorage dot org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 14:23:13 +0100
- Subject: Re: malloc: performance improvements and bugfixes
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On 01/26/2016 04:21 AM, Jörn Engel wrote:
> And just in case it wasn't clear, all the above is my personal opinion
> and not that of my employer. Maybe my employer sees enough merit in
> getting code upstream to handle the legal work. I do not and will not
> pursue this any further.
Even if you cannot contribute code directly, performance testing of
malloc changes by others is extremely helpful. In the past, lack of
credible, real-world benchmarking prevented us from making any
fundamental changes to the malloc code.
Florian