DMD + nedmalloc? last one

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Robert
Clipsham<robert at octarineparrot.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

I'll give some of them a shot.  Hopefully getting others to compile
with DMC won't be nearly as much of an adventure :P