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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 22 Sep 1997 20:49:52 +0200
In-Reply-To: karlheg@inetarena.com's message of "22 Sep 1997 11:34:18 -0700"
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karlheg@inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:

>     Hrvoje> Should we add the same stuff to XEmacs?  What *is*
>     Hrvoje> DOUG_LEA_MALLOC anyway?  We need a malloc guru here.
> 
>  I'm not a malloc guru... but I know that the Doug Lea malloc is
>  what's in the Linux glibc-2.  XEmacs won't work if you tell configure
>  to use-system-malloc.  I wonder if that patch would fix it?

Maybe.  Either way, that wasn't what I hoped it would be (an
optimization for consing to explain the difference between 19.34 and
20.1)

> * Why use this malloc?
> 
>   This is not the fastest, most space-conserving, most portable, or
>   most tunable malloc ever written. However it is among the fastest
>   while also being among the most space-conserving, portable and tunable.
>   Consistent balance across these factors results in a good general-purpose
>   allocator. For a high-level description, see
>      http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html

Maybe we should ship this with XEmacs, if it's so good? :-)

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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