[Bf-committers] Drop in multithreading with hoard malloc replacement?

[Yann Vernier]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 07:28:36PM -0500, Campbell J Barton wrote:
> Hi, heres a GPL library that claims to allow a program to become 
> multithreaded simply by linking to it.
> 
> http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/hoard/

No, programs do not become multithreaded by using hoard. However, if a
program *is* multithreaded *and* runs on multiple CPUs, then linking to
hoard can likely make its memory management more efficient.

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