Re: Lua and custom memory allocators

["Alex Davies" <alex.mania@...>]

From: "Abhinav Lele"
> are these benchmarks similar for GNU toolchain ?

I'm lost as to why my VS seems to be so slow. Not having a gnu setup, I 
tried downloading the lua standalones which I'm pretty sure are compiled 
with VS. They are about half the speed, compared to 1/20th, which is more 
like I would expect. So I imagine gcc would be similar. Still a nice 
performance increase, but nothing to write home about. (For the record, I 
needed the allocator anyway as the system I'm compiling for does not feature 
a realloc ;)

Don't suppose anyone with VS knows what I've missed? Stepping through the 
code it does not appear to be performing memsets or anything, and seems to 
be passing the malloc calls straight through to the operating system which 
would explain the fragmentation and speed issues.

-sigh-

- Alex