Re: GSlice vs. tcmalloc vs. jemalloc

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico gnome org>]

On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 22:10 +0200, stefan skoglund(agj) wrote:

> Do GSlice use the Solaris feature for memory usage levelling (an
> important feauture because of the fact that the SPARCCenter 2000 had
> striped RAM.)
>
> Important that in this case that if you hit multiple structs of the same
> type for example a tree-walk you should avoid hitting the same memory
> bank multiple times in a row.

Ummmm, do you mean the cache coloring stuff?  I.e. so that structs of
the same size get put in different cache lines.

I don't recall mentions of "memory usage levelling"; to what does that
refer?

  Federico