Performance issues with our internal memory allocator

Noel Grandin noelgrandin at gmail.com
Mon Sep 28 05:13:12 PDT 2015



On 2015-09-28 11:11 AM, Markus Mohrhard wrote:
> Hey,
>
>
> So it seems that the system allocator is actually even worse as can be seen at
> http://perf.libreoffice.org/perf_html/suite_cppu_sc.html
>
>
> I'll leave it in for a bit as I want to see what happens if we increase the memory for the vm but I fear that the
> numbers show that the internal allocator is actually useful.
>

Probably best would be to walk up the stack a little and see if you can get the code that calls the allocator to reduce 
the number of times it needs to do so.
I always find that it way more useful (and more fun) than fiddling with custom allocators :-)



More information about the LibreOffice mailing list