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Diffstat (limited to 'extra/Configs/Config.alpha')
| -rw-r--r-- | extra/Configs/Config.alpha | 18 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/extra/Configs/Config.alpha b/extra/Configs/Config.alpha index f8cc9ddbc..d5160c1fa 100644 --- a/extra/Configs/Config.alpha +++ b/extra/Configs/Config.alpha @@ -86,19 +86,17 @@ HAS_LOCALE = false HAS_WCHAR = false # This specifies which malloc implementation is used. -# "malloc-simple" is very, very small, but is also very, very dumb -# and does not try to make good use of memory or clean up after itself. # -# "malloc" on the other hand is a bit bigger, but is pretty smart thereby -# minimizing memory wastage and reusing already allocated memory. This -# can be lots faster and safer IMHO. +# "malloc" use mmap for all allocations and so works very well on MMU-less +# systems that do not support the brk() system call. It is pretty smart +# about reusing already allocated memory, and minimizing memory wastage. # -# "malloc-930716" is from libc-5.3.12 and was/is the standard gnu malloc. -# It is actually smaller than "malloc", but because it is based on brk/sbrk -# it will only work on systems with an MMU. -MALLOC = malloc-simple +# "malloc-930716" is derived from libc-5.3.12 and uses the brk() system call +# for all memory allocations. This makes it very fast. It is also pretty +# smart about reusing already allocated memory, and minimizing memory wastage. +# Because this uses brk() it will not work on uClinux MMU-less systems. #MALLOC = malloc -#MALLOC = malloc-930716 +MALLOC = malloc-930716 # If you want to collect common syscall code into one function, set to this to # `true'. Set it to false otherwise. |