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Re:The Windows malloc() implementation from MSVCRT is slow by garaetjjte on Saturday July 02, 2022 @06:37PM (#31963105)
Ancient or not, I don't think it really matters for allocation performance: malloc in both msvcrt.dll and ucrtbase.dll after some indirection ends up calling RtlAllocateHeap in ntdll.dll
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Re:The Windows malloc() implementation from MSVCRT is slow by TonyTrapp on Sunday July 03, 2022 @06:31AM (#31966620)
It does, because modern allocators do a lot of house keeping on top of the system heaps, e.g. to quickly reuse identically-sized memory chunks that were just freed.
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