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Re: overhaul of anonymous mmap detection

To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>
Subject: Re: overhaul of anonymous mmap detection
From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 23:48:01 -0800
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <20010111094558.X2032@wolery.stanford.edu> <20010111203207.212.qmail@lauras.lt> <20010111202308.Z2032@wolery.stanford.edu> <20010112045941.1071.qmail@lauras.lt> <20010111210804.G2032@wolery.stanford.edu>

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:08:04PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> In addition to the reasons listed there, I can +/- guarantee you the
> patch will be approved faster the less invasive it is.  Leaving out
> xvalloc-atop-mmap will simplify things considerably.

Indeed.

In fact, I would be even more willing to spend time reviewing
a patch to ggc-page.c that attempted to do large (64k) mallocs
and serve aligned pages out of that.

IMO, xvalloc is the wrong approach.

r~

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