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Re: [PATCH 10/12] MINGW: config.mak.uname: drop USE_NED_ALLOCATOR

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 28, 2014, 16:30 UTC
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Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Marat Radchenko <marat@slonopotamus.org> wrote:
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>> nedalloc was initially added in f0ed82 to fix slowness of standard WinXP
>> memory allocator. Since WinXP is EOLed, this point is no longer valid.
>>
>> The actual reason behind this commit is incompatibility of malloc.c.h
>> with MinGW-W64 headers. Alternative solution implies updating nedalloc
>> to something newer.
>
> Did you measure that malloc on newer Windows-versions are actually
> faster? AFAIK, malloc does a lot more inside the CRT than in the
> kernel...

If it does turn out that nedalloc is not needed any more, please remove it from compat/, too. ;-)

Thanks for cleaning up.
Jonathan
Previous: Erik Faye-LundNext: Marat Radchenko
Message 45 of 54 in “Towards MinGW(-W64) cross-compilation”
  1. Towards MinGW(-W64) cross-compilationMarat Radchenko, Apr 28, 2014
  2. 01/12 MINGW: config.mak.uname: add explicit way to request MinGW-buildMarat Radchenko, Apr 28, 2014
  3. Jonathan NiederApr 28, 2014
  4. 02/12 MINGW: compat/bswap.h: include stdint.hMarat Radchenko, Apr 28, 2014
  5. Erik Faye-LundApr 28, 2014
  6. Marat RadchenkoApr 28, 2014
  7. Erik Faye-LundApr 28, 2014
  8. 03/12 MINGW: compat/mingw.h: do not attempt to redefine lseek on mingw-w64Marat Radchenko, Apr 28, 2014
  9. Erik Faye-LundApr 28, 2014
  10. Marat RadchenkoApr 28, 2014
  11. Erik Faye-LundApr 28, 2014
  12. Torsten BögershausenApr 28, 2014
  13. Felipe ContrerasApr 28, 2014
  14. Erik Faye-LundApr 28, 2014
  15. 04/12 Makefile: introduce CROSS_COMPILE variableMarat Radchenko, Apr 28, 2014
  16. Jonathan NiederApr 28, 2014
  17. Felipe ContrerasApr 28, 2014
  18. Marat RadchenkoApr 28, 2014
  19. Jonathan NiederApr 28, 2014
  20. Marat RadchenkoApr 28, 2014
  21. Felipe ContrerasApr 28, 2014
  22. Marat RadchenkoApr 28, 2014
  23. Felipe ContrerasApr 28, 2014
  24. Jonathan NiederApr 28, 2014
  25. Felipe ContrerasApr 28, 2014
  26. 05/12 MINGW: git-compat-util.h: use inttypes.h for printf macros.Marat Radchenko, Apr 28, 2014
  27. Erik Faye-LundApr 28, 2014
  28. Marat RadchenkoApr 28, 2014
  29. Erik Faye-LundApr 28, 2014
  30. 06/12 MSVC: config.mak.uname: drop -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS from compile definitionsMarat Radchenko, Apr 28, 2014
  31. Erik Faye-LundApr 28, 2014
  32. 07/12 MINGW: config.mak.uname: reorganize MINGW settingsMarat Radchenko, Apr 28, 2014
  33. Erik Faye-LundApr 28, 2014
  34. Marat RadchenkoApr 28, 2014
  35. Erik Faye-LundApr 28, 2014
  36. Marat RadchenkoApr 28, 2014
  37. 08/12 MINGW: config.mak.uname allow using CURL for non-msysGit buildsMarat Radchenko, Apr 28, 2014
  38. Erik Faye-LundApr 28, 2014
  39. Marat RadchenkoApr 28, 2014
  40. Erik Faye-LundApr 28, 2014
  41. 09/12 MINGW: config.mak.uname: drop -DNOGDIMarat Radchenko, Apr 28, 2014
  42. Erik Faye-LundApr 28, 2014
  43. 10/12 MINGW: config.mak.uname: drop USE_NED_ALLOCATORMarat Radchenko, Apr 28, 2014
  44. Erik Faye-LundApr 28, 2014
  45. Jonathan NiederApr 28, 2014
  46. Marat RadchenkoApr 29, 2014
  47. Felipe ContrerasApr 29, 2014
  48. Felipe ContrerasApr 28, 2014
  49. Philip OakleyApr 28, 2014
  50. 11/12 MINGW: do not fail at redefining pid_t on MinGW-W64Marat Radchenko, Apr 28, 2014
  51. Erik Faye-LundApr 28, 2014
  52. 12/12 MINGW: compat/mingw.h: drop fork() definitionMarat Radchenko, Apr 28, 2014
  53. Erik Faye-LundApr 28, 2014
  54. Erik Faye-LundApr 28, 2014

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