More on the svn 23660 breakage.

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Wed Oct 29 23:26:44 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 29 October 2008 09:49:02 Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> Rob Landley wrote:
> > There are _three_ allocators right now, MALLOC, MALLOC_SIMPLE, and
> > MALLOC_STANDARD.  Is your objection that MALLOC does everything
> > MALLOC_SIMPLE does (including nommu support), so there's no real need for
> > MALLOC_SIMPLE?
>
> Simple = plain bad in this case.  It has massive overhead in space and
> time.  We shouldn't offer our users something that is quite this broken.
>
> On Blackfin, we use MALLOC, which is also reasonably small and vastly
> better than MALLOC_SIMPLE.

Now that MALLOC is working again, I have no attachment to MALLOC_SIMPLE.

At this point, I don't think bernhard's interested in removing anything from 
0.9.30, but if you bring this up again after the release I have no objection 
to removing code we don't need.

Rob



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