From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:23:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/12] MINGW: config.mak.uname: drop USE_NED_ALLOCATOR
Message-ID: <CABPQNSZD5jz1A8=zQvU4dYvNb-5M+TV50Uj+oVbWJs3YWBytHw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1398693097-24651-11-git-send-email-marat@slonopotamus.org>

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Marat Radchenko <marat@slonopotamus.org> wrote:
> 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 Since WinXP is EOLed, this point is no longer valid.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...