I noticed in Ulf Wiger's presentation Erlang Programming for Multicore:<br><br><a href="http://ulf.wiger.net/weblog/2009/01/23/erlang-programming-for-multicore/">http://ulf.wiger.net/weblog/2009/01/23/erlang-programming-for-multicore/</a><br>
<br>...that the main contention point in R13A is now the memory allocator.<br><br>Are there any plans for addressing this, such as moving to a different memory allocator, maybe:<br><br>tcmalloc: <a href="http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html">http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html</a><br>
hoard: <a href="http://www.hoard.org">http://www.hoard.org</a><br clear="all"><br>I'm curious how much something like this would improve Erlang's performance. Perhaps I'll try benchmarking Erlang with these allocators versus plain vanilla libc.<br>
<br>-- <br>Tony Arcieri<br><a href="http://medioh.com">medioh.com</a><br>