From 6994dd8083a0637876c43ff737f8c2dcf7735f83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Andersen Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:33:56 +0000 Subject: More detail about malloc-simple --- extra/Configs/Config.in | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'extra') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3