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Userspace Memory Allocation

Posted Sep 4, 2008 16:28 UTC (Thu) by scottt (subscriber, #5028)
Parent article: The Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: UNIX Internals

Naive question: how much did userspace malloc's learn from the various kernel allocators?

I remember reading on LWN that part of Firefox 3's performance improvement came from adopting jemalloc and avoiding memory fragmentation on Windows:
http://lwn.net/Articles/273001/

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