From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann) Message-Id: <9711091811.AA11422@clio.rice.edu> Subject: Re: malloc() To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii) Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 12:11:15 -0600 (CST) Cc: sjmachin AT lexicon DOT net DOT au, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com In-Reply-To: from "Eli Zaretskii" at Nov 9, 97 01:26:05 pm Content-Type: text Precedence: bulk > > (2) I'm not wildly excited about the idea of FTPing emacs source, > > Tough. I don't see how could you test this with any real-world > program without downloading some sources. While this is true, I don't think emacs is represetative of all programs out there - it's just a huge application - and no more important than any other program out there. Using emacs as the test bed ends up with a malloc package optimized for - emacs. Someone wanting to improve the libc shouldn't be forced to test a single monster application he is not interested in. If a monster app is to be tested, I think it should be a recompile of GCC with itself using the new package - and some of the pathalogical data initialization codes to see how they perform in both memory and speed. In any case, the person who does the testing must ultimately convince DJ the code is stable, meets the copyright requirements, and has been adequately tested.