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| author | Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> | 2004-03-09 22:33:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> | 2004-03-09 22:33:56 +0000 |
| commit | 6994dd8083a0637876c43ff737f8c2dcf7735f83 (patch) | |
| tree | 6e71589fe4c91546aa98e608475dd50842ebf0a0 /extra | |
| parent | f6b6b3b7a4a6a13e7f7ded3c11091cf68df86906 (diff) | |
More detail about malloc-simple
Diffstat (limited to 'extra')
| -rw-r--r-- | extra/Configs/Config.in | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/extra/Configs/Config.in b/extra/Configs/Config.in index 4f15ea021..81dc50482 100644 --- a/extra/Configs/Config.in +++ b/extra/Configs/Config.in @@ -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 |