Linux 3.19-rc3

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Sat Jan 10 11:42:47 PST 2015


On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 2:46 AM, Andreas Mohr <andi at lisas.de> wrote:
>
> Yet that is what any VirtualAlloc() call on Windows does
> One thing less left to wonder why 'doze is such a performance pig...

Well, to be fair, you shouldn't use VirtualAlloc() as some 'malloc()'
replacement. It's  more of a backing store allocator for malloc() and
friends than anything else.

                         Linus



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