Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

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"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes:
>
> It is the garbage collector scheme used for memory allocation in gcc
> >=2.96 that triggers the bad cases seen by Serge.

Ahhh! Thanks for the info.

I'm still happy to help test out the patch, but I guess it's not
likely to affect my 2.95.2 numbers much at all. Maybe I can get a
snapshot of GCC 3.0 up and running, though, and test that out.

Thanks.

Kevin <buhr@stat.wisc.edu>
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