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Re:Mimalloc – A compact general-purpose allocator by MaxBarraclough on Saturday June 22, 2019 @05:31PM (#20251821)
To be clear, your program ran at half speed, right? That's far worse than doubling the time spent in memory-management functions.
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Re:Mimalloc – A compact general-purpose allocator by danlark on Saturday June 22, 2019 @06:03PM (#20251951)
Yes, our program ran at half speed.
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Re:Mimalloc – A compact general-purpose allocator by vinay_ys on Sunday June 23, 2019 @01:23AM (#20253449)
It is quite bad if changing the allocator made your program run at half speed. It doesn't matter if the library itself consumed more CPU or caused more wait (guessing that's the case here) due to concurrency or excessive syscalls.
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