Re: [PATCH 10/12] MINGW: config.mak.uname: drop USE_NED_ALLOCATOR

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On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Marat Radchenko <marat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> nedalloc was initially added in f0ed82 to fix slowness of standard WinXP
> memory allocator. Since WinXP is EOLed, this point is no longer valid.
>
> The actual reason behind this commit is incompatibility of malloc.c.h
> with MinGW-W64 headers. Alternative solution implies updating nedalloc
> to something newer.

Did you measure that malloc on newer Windows-versions are actually
faster? AFAIK, malloc does a lot more inside the CRT than in the
kernel...
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