Re: MEMORY QUESTION

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From: Ed L Cashin
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:42

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David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> writes:

> David Peter wrote:
> 
> > Sure, I know all about debug and production builds - I'm a software
> > engineer. But as an SE I spend most of my time working with debug builds
> > and tools like dmalloc, good in principal though they may be, don't
> > really help if one's application ends up running 20 times slower than
> > normal.
> 
> 	Why? For most applications, you should be able to just start it going
> with automation and go to sleep.

Anyway, twenty times slower is nothing like my experience with
dmalloc.  It's not a human-noticable speed difference when I use it,
and there's a significant amount of malloc-demalloc'ing in the code
I'm thinking of.

Maybe the dmalloc mailing list would help.

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From: Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coe.uga.edu>
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