[PATCH][malloc] Avoid atomics in have_fastchunks
Arjan van de Ven
arjan@linux.intel.com
Wed Sep 20 14:02:00 GMT 2017
On 9/19/2017 6:57 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
>> An alternative would be to move all the fastbin handling into the t-cache - but
>> then I bet it's much easier just to write a fast modern allocator...
>
> Writing a fast modern allocator is not easy :-)
>
and since glibc 2.26, glibc's malloc() is actually no longer losing against some of those
alternative allocators as well, for example see
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Glibc-2.26-Redis-Test
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