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Diffstat (limited to 'extra/Configs/Config.i386')
| -rw-r--r-- | extra/Configs/Config.i386 | 16 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/extra/Configs/Config.i386 b/extra/Configs/Config.i386 index 706a34223..0125417e7 100644 --- a/extra/Configs/Config.i386 +++ b/extra/Configs/Config.i386 @@ -86,17 +86,15 @@ 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 |