Perl has more than one allocation scheme

I've just built perl (with mingw) using perl's malloc and that takes care of the problem.
However, according to comments in the makefile.mk, if you use perl's malloc you have to build without USE_IMP_SYS (which I also did). This means that the perl that has been built with perl's malloc has no threads or fork emulation - which would be unsatisfactory for many people. It also means that the ppm packages available from the various repos are unusable with this build of perl.

It was perl-5.11.2 that I built to check this out, having first established that perl-5.11.2 exhibits the crap behaviour when built with "normal" options (and it does).

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^2: Why is Windows 100 times slower than Linux when growing a large scalar? by syphilis
in thread Why is Windows 100 times slower than Linux when growing a large scalar? by Anonymous Monk

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