On Saturday, August 12, 2017 5:36:36 PM EDT Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 12 August 2017 at 15:10, luke-tier...@uiowa.edu wrote:
> | As the Python posts poitns out, it is possible to use alternate malloc
> | implementations, either rebuilding R to use them or using LD_PRELOAD.
> | On Ubuntu for exa
FWIW if we are talking about alternative allocators, tcmalloc is another
candidate that we are using for our projects where we care about allocations
and performance (another upshot is that it's very flexible so you can do a lot
of cool things if you care). However I didn't try it with R - I'll
On 13 August 2017 at 15:15, Dmitriy Selivanov wrote:
| Very interesting information about switching glibc malloc to jemalloc.
|
| So I see action plan as following:
|
|1. set up some benchmark (need to think about design)
|2. Run it on ubuntu machine with default glibc malloc
|3. Run
Very interesting information about switching glibc malloc to jemalloc.
So I see action plan as following:
1. set up some benchmark (need to think about design)
2. Run it on ubuntu machine with default glibc malloc
3. Run it with malloc_trim passed with reg.finalizer()
4. Run it with j
