Re: perl malloc slow?

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 11:41:19 +0100
Holger Kipp <Holger.Kipp_at_alogis.com> writes:
> Searching on the internet gave the impression that this might be
> malloc/FreeBSD related. Any chance of this being resolved?

This is basically a bug in Perl (poor choice of algorithm for growing
strings).  Perl's malloc() implementation knows about and compensates
for this bug.  FreeBSD's malloc() implementation does not.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.no
Received on Thu Jan 08 2004 - 01:41:29 UTC

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