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Subject: Re: djgpp v2.04 release?
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>"Andris Pavenis"  wrote in message news:55167074 DOT 3070503 AT iki DOT fi...
>Problem with malloc is still there. I have used nmalloc for DJGPP port of GCC 
>already for years as
>v2.04 memory management is much too slow.

There is also a simple fix for the existing 2.03/2.04 default malloc - in the 
free() code remove the
block merging stuff.  It is O(N**2) or O(N**3).  When memory was tight it might 
have made sense
with a better implementation (to avoid paging to hard disk) - but just remove 
that code today
and I doubt anyone will notice (other than huge speed increases freeing lots of 
blocks).

But the other issue here is Microsoft has pushed 64-bit default distributions so 
hard that anyone
with a system newer than XP probably cannot run the 16-bit DOS interfaced DJGPP.