Re: Linux 3.19-rc3

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Jan 10 2015 - 14:42:53 EST


On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 2:46 AM, Andreas Mohr <andi@xxxxxxxx> 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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