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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:19:27 -0600
From: Eric Rudd <rudd AT cyberoptics DOT com>
Subject: Re: Malloc/free DJGPP code
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> (If blocks are allocated in sizes that are powers of two, there's no reason
>> this last example can't be made to run fast -- though it's presently slow,
>
> Is that with the CVS version or with the one in djdev203?  I believe Mark made
> a change in CVS that speeds up realloc by a large factor.

Yes, you are right.  The test I ran was with the malloc in djdev203.  It was
taking roughly 20k clocks for a realloc of a 100kB block.  I re-ran the test with
1.11 from the CVS tree and found that the reallocs were taking only roughly 300
clocks.  So I guess this problem has been solved.

-Eric