Re^3: 5:10: Why is this slower than 5.8.8?

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Perl's malloc is fine.

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Re^4: 5:10: Why is this slower than 5.8.8? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 23, 2007 at 17:43 UTC
Try to compile 2 versions of perl5.8 on FreeBSD - one with mymalloc, other - without. And then compare their perfomances. You will be very dissapointed. The one which uses FREEBSD's malloc will be 20-30% faster in almost any operations.	[reply]