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Hi Neil,

On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 13:45 -0300, Neil Leathers wrote:
In running through my build settings I was trying to decide which
value to use for --with-alloc=???.

        Wow - that's a blast from the past. Intel did some work to enable
tcmalloc to be used - one of those micro-optimisations that people hope
will make things faster and often do - but only linearly.

Currently it defaults to "internal" perhaps this should be changed to
default to "system". If there is a good reason why "internal" is
better then it should be documented on the wiki page. Or the trade
offs and recommendations should be documented on the wiki.

        Right - so, we should do some performance tests of characteristic
documents with the internal vs. system allocator. AFAIR the system
allocator is rather good on Linux, and terrible on Windows ;-) so
possibly we should have a platform-dependent default.

        As for the tcmalloc and abcmalloc options I'd be inclined to strip them
out as cruft we can live without these days.

        Is that reasonable ? I'd just do 3x timing runs for startup / document
load / exit for some reasonably large .doc, .ppt, and .xls [ chosen for
their faster, non-XML impls. by the way ].

        if you use:

        export RTL_LOGFILE=/tmp/startup.nopid

        and remove that before running, you -should- get some nice timestamps
in it that can be used to test.

        It'd be wonderful to have some new research in that area to build
better decisions on.

        Thanks :-)

                Michael.

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michael.meeks@suse.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot


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