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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    RE: malloc performance
From:       "Kosoru Jozef" <kosoru () qbsw ! sk>
Date:       2002-02-13 9:02:03
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> From: Matthias Elter
> 
> 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.

Multi-threaded appliactions are usually much more complicated than other
simple apps. The main reason why to write multi-threaded programs is
an efficiency, so providing a malloc solution which leads to a worse
performance for multi-threaded apps is something like to say: "We have
to
support simple apps just because the more complex software is something
which don't exist for KDE so who cares about their performance!"
I think this is not a good plan to the future of the KDE. 

Jozef
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