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From: abali@raksha.eng.ohio-state.edu (Bulent Abali)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: malloc performance
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Date: 8 Feb 89 17:30:31 GMT
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I am using an Intel hypercube with Unix System V/386. 
Malloc(3C) seems to be really slow. Allocating a 64 kbyte
block takes 100 milliseconds. Malloc(3X) which is supposed
to be faster than (3C) takes 110 milliseconds.

Is there a cure for this problem?


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Bulent Abali
Ohio State Univ., Dept.of Electrical Eng.
2015 Neil Av. Columbus, Ohio 43210
abali@baloo.eng.ohio-state.edu