Hi,

The performance figures I gave earlier with my C++ application
may not have been realistic as I ran it on a very small
problem set (it takes a long time to run on the full problem
set).  I reconfigured it to run on the full problem set but
set it to stop after completing only 1/32 of the work.  This
allowed me to run it in a reasonable amount of time but get
realistic memory usage from it.  Below is a table listing the
performance figures I get with libc.so from 1.4.2_Alpha and
from 1.4Y (on a DEC Personal Workstation):

Library         Options                 Run time
libc.so.61      MALLOC_OPTIONS=""       38.229u 61.542s
libc.so.61      MALLOC_OPTIONS="h"      32.475u  0.048s
libc.so.40      MALLOC_OPTIONS=""       29.716u  0.043s

The changes in libc.so.61 (after setting MALLOC_OPTIONS to "h")
still impact my performance by -9% or so.  I realize that this
may be offset by increased performance in other applications,
so this could be a non-issue.  Still, it would be nice to know
that this was done cogently and not as the by-product of some
other change.

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Bill Dorsey