DMD + nedmalloc? last one

Robert Clipsham robert at octarineparrot.com
Fri Jun 5 06:03:06 PDT 2009


Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> Wow, just.. wow.  I can't believe you got it working :D  Thanks so
> much; I'm sure other people will find this useful as well!
> 
> At long last, I was able to test it!  And... amazingly, it was 50%
> slower than the default malloc/free :\  I even compiled it with
> optimization enabled.
> 
> In disbelief, I tried it in my virtualized linux box with GCC as well,
> and got a similar result, so it doesn't seem to be DMC's fault..
> 
> Hm.  Maybe it's just supposed to be faster for multithreaded code.

Maybe you could try one of the many other malloc replacements? I believe 
firefox switched to jemalloc, I have no real knowledge of this sort of 
thing though. A quick google seems to come up with quite a few "fast" 
replacements, including one from Google.



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