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Re: Perfomance of gc-simple
- To: Jamie Lokier <egcs at tantalophile dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Perfomance of gc-simple
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 13:07:42 -0600
- cc: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras at softhome dot net>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, DJGPP Workers <djgpp-workers at delorie dot com>
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <20000508182530.B30332@pcep-jamie.cern.ch>you write:
> Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> > Actually, older BSD systems (4.3 era) don't provide a usable
> > mmap implementation.
>
> What's broken?
Unfortunately, I don't remember offhand; I just know it doesn't work
the way we need and we fall back to valloc (which is rather wasteful
given BSD mallocs).
jeff