Re: Can mimalloc turn out to be useful for LibreOffice?

Michael Stahl <mst -AT- libreoffice.org>

Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:54:57 +0200

On 24.06.19 08:10, Kaganski Mike wrote:

MS has released its mimalloc [1] under BSD license as a drop-in
replacement for malloc. It is said to have excellent performance. It's
also cross-platform. Can it be useful for LibreOffice (on supported
platforms)? What is required to actually make LibreOffice use it, and
how to test possible performance effect?

havent we just removed our custom SLAB allocator recently because it

wasn't worth the maintenance effort?

we have --with-alloc configure flags but setting that to anything custom

like tcmalloc or jemalloc was removed in

494bdd3dc32287cc01ea4e0d81438a9266425726 because it had been broken

since 2011 and nobody noticed.

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