Re: [PATCH 10/12] MINGW: config.mak.uname: drop USE_NED_ALLOCATOR
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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
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- Apr 28, 2014, 15:23 UTC
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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 Since WinXP is EOLed, this point is no longer valid.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...