Subj : Re: Lock Free -- where to start
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Oliver S.
Date : Mon Oct 03 2005 03:39 am

> The literature suggests that typical programs may spend 20% of
> their running time inside the allocator (heap manager) routines.

If you really need performance, use thread-local pooling for memory
allocations (the local pool may swap memory-blocks with a global
pool) and if you need even more performance, use thread-local pools
for equally sized objects. That's a magnitude faster than lock-free
allocations on a global heap.

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