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Not sure why you are getting downvoted. IIRC, OpenBSD is slightly more sophisticated than issuing one syscall per call to malloc(3) and friends. Just slightly,
by krylon 9y ago
Not sure why you are getting downvoted.
IIRC, OpenBSD is slightly more sophisticated than issuing one syscall per call to malloc(3) and friends. Just slightly, but still. ;-)
Still, I do not like expressing disagreement by downvoting. Sorry about that.
- rurban 9y agoYeah, I was a bit wrong. It does a syscall for every 4K. Normal systems use a slow syscall only for malloc > 128K. I see no other advantage than extremism in security, and giving a damn about performance.