wrong performance of malloc/free under multi-threading

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:13:24PM +0900, jojelino wrote:
>On 2013-02-26 PM 10:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>This is Cygwin only.
>>
>cygwin malloc is not reentrant according to malloc_wrapper.cc so let's
>not expect performance like linux or native windows.  until someone
>have plenty of time to resolve this issue.

It's a fairly simple matter to drop in a version of malloc which is
truly multi-threaded, removing the locks in the malloc wrapper.
Figuring out which malloc is the best and insuring that we haven't
broken anything which relies on the subtle behavior of dlmalloc
isn't.  Maybe that's what you're saying.

One gotcha is that some multi-threaded mallocs use memory profligately.
So, that's something that we have to be aware of when we change mallocs.

cgf

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