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Re: malloc() wastes 50%...


On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:50:28 -0400, John Moser wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:41 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> mtrace replaces sbrk(), malloc(), free(), realloc(), memalign(),
> valloc(), calloc(), and cfree() with wrappers to the native allocator.

Presumably you're seeing heap fragmentation then, which is indeed a
problem but you need a compacting GC to fix it and they have their own
problems ...


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