Re: perl malloc slow?

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:41:07 -0800 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:37:37 UTC

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:41:19AM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> 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.

I heard someone say it was fixed in perl 5.<mumble> (8?)

Kris