On 4/13/17 6:32 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> Obviously a bug in valgrind, but I am interested: why does bash not use the
> glibc malloc by default on GNU/Linux systems?
The bash malloc is faster; better tuned for bash; is more signal safe
without the twisty maze of locks that the glibc malloc uses; and includes
things like bounds checking and duplicate free detection by default.
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