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New allocator... [message #16093]

Tue, 27 May 2008 19:46

mirek
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Registered: November 2005

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After encountering the shortcomings of memory allocator in heavily multithreaded apps, I have implemented a new one (already 5th Wink

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There are two advantages:

- allocator is non-locking for in-thread allocations, only remote-free locks

- false sharing - cacheline contention - is no more a problem.

Moreover, surprisingly it is a bit faster in single-threaded apps too.

However, this is a very fragile piece of code (took me 7 days to develop those 800 lines), I have tested it in a test with one bilion allocations; anyway if you have any mission critical software, I recommend to backup Core to your app nest (so that older version will be used) (and wait a week or two Wink

Mirek

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Re: New allocator... [message #16452 is a reply to message #16093]

Mon, 16 June 2008 15:51

cocob
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Registered: January 2008

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I can see that my apps are faster using UPP Allocator.
Do you have somes examples and time comparisons with and without UPP Allocator ?

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Re: New allocator... [message #16455 is a reply to message #16452]

Mon, 16 June 2008 19:35

mirek
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Not much beyond this:

http://www.ultimatepp.org/www$uppweb$vsstd$en-us.html

(you can compare STL time with standard GLIBC allocator and with U++).

Mirek

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Re: New allocator... [message #16456 is a reply to message #16455]

Mon, 16 June 2008 19:35

mirek
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P.S.: I think the new allocator is proven stable now...

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Re: New allocator... [message #16470 is a reply to message #16093]

Tue, 17 June 2008 08:56

cocob
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Registered: January 2008

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Ok so it seems to be around 17% faster only using U++ allocator (not bad !). I have the same results with my apps. thanks

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Re: New allocator... [message #16551 is a reply to message #16470]

Tue, 24 June 2008 22:46

Mindtraveller
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Registered: August 2007
Location: Russia, Moscow rgn.

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Recently I`ve met discussion about new Google allocator. It was told that it is about 6 times faster than common one.
http://google-perftools.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/tcmallo c.html

May be this could be handy, or it will be interesting to compare - just pasting link.

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