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Diffstat (limited to 'extra/Configs/Config.in')
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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 |