[sldev] [VWR] Heap checkers

[Robin Cornelius]

Robin Cornelius wrote:
> Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

>> We used to build and ship the Linux viewer against tcmalloc, but we
>> gave up because of reports of crashes that we were unable to
>> reproduce. Perhaps the situation has since improved.

Oh i forgot i was going to say, likely that it was in fact heap
corruption causing unreproducible results. It was a while ago now i
think since the tcmalloc stuff was removed and "back in the day" there
were quite a few leaks and crashes that have since been plugged.

> Its suppose to have a slightly faster malloc() something like 150us than
> glibc (on some mid range setup) but in the grand picture of things that

Oh That should be nano seconds as well, my bad. Makes the spped
advantage less significant by 3 orders of magnitude.

Robin

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