Hi René, On Thu, 8 Aug 2019, René Scharfe wrote: > Importing the latest version of nedmalloc might make sense in general. > The last commit in git://github.com/ned14/nedmalloc.git was done five > years ago; is it finished? A diffstat with -b looks like this: > > malloc.c.h | 1193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- > nedmalloc.c | 1720 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- > nedmalloc.h | 1580 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- > 3 files changed, 3840 insertions(+), 653 deletions(-) > > Any nedmalloc fans interested in bringing the goodies hidden in there > to Git (presumably while retaining our local fixes)? I had looked into this already over two years ago, and had to stop after investigating a performance regression for two weeks and not getting anywhere. Also, nedmalloc fell unmaintained, so I don't necessarily think that it would be a good idea to spend a lot of time on it. In the meantime, there is a much more viable contender: mi-malloc. Preliminary tests suggest that its performance on Windows is at least as good as nedmalloc's, and Windows was the use case for which we integrated nedmalloc into Git's compat/ in the first place. I have tentative patches to integrate it into Git for Windows, and basically got side-tracked with other things. Expect to see something regarding mi-malloc from me in September. Ciao, Dscho
