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authorEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2004-03-09 22:33:56 +0000
committerEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2004-03-09 22:33:56 +0000
commit6994dd8083a0637876c43ff737f8c2dcf7735f83 (patch)
tree6e71589fe4c91546aa98e608475dd50842ebf0a0 /extra/Configs
parentf6b6b3b7a4a6a13e7f7ded3c11091cf68df86906 (diff)
More detail about malloc-simple
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diff --git a/extra/Configs/Config.in b/extra/Configs/Config.in
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@@ -329,8 +329,11 @@ choice
"malloc-simple" was written from scratch for uClibc, and is the
simplest possible (and therefore smallest) malloc implementation.
- It is rather dumb, and certainly isn't the fastest. But it is 100%
- standards compliant, thread safe, and very small.
+ This uses only the mmap() system call to allocation memory, and does
+ not use the brk() system call at all, making it a fine choice for
+ MMU-less systems with very limited memory. It is rather dumb, and
+ certainly isn't the fastest. But it is 100% standards compliant,
+ thread safe, and very small.
"malloc-standard" is derived from the public domain dlmalloc
implementation by Doug Lea. It is quite fast, and is pretty smart