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Re:Malloc Challenge by chrisseaton on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @04:11AM (#12956657)
Doesn't the benchmark also just allocate and then immediately free? I think I could specialise for that particular use pattern and make it very fast just for the benchmarks. Will that not work for some reason? A good benchmark might be a replayed set of allocate and free operations from a large real application.
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Re:Malloc Challenge by codr4life on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @10:16AM (#12958652)
It does, but with random sizes. If think you have a way to make that run faster than the provided implementations, then please show us.
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Re:Malloc Challenge by chrisseaton on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @11:56AM (#12959800)
Challenge accepted (if I can find the free time)!
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