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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: malloc performance
From:       m_elter () t-online ! de (Matthias Elter)
Date:       2002-02-12 13:38:02
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Henrik Johnson wrote:

> My application TOra (Not in any of the KDE packages, but it is a KDE 
> application and already supports KDE3) uses threads extensively. So 
> making KDE not working with threads would basically force me to go 
> back to Qt only. As long as it is optional (And distributions not 
> using it) I have no problems with this. 

You misunderstood Lubos. Even with his malloc implementation enabled KDE 
will of course continue to support threads. Because of the use of 
spinlocks for mutual exclusion it might perform a bit worse with many 
threads running than the default implementation though.

Greetings,
Matthias




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