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scott_s on July 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

glibc's malloc has actually been decent with regards to concurrent memory allocation for a while now, in my experience. I googled around, and found someone talking about glibc's malloc not using a global lock: http://siddhesh.in/journal/2012/10/24/malloc-per-thread-aren...

haberman on July 26, 2013 [–]

Thanks for the info; good to know that glibc has improved in this regard. I'd correct my comment but it's no longer editable. :/

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