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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] buildbot failure in Wireshark (developme

Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 01:27:09 +0200
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 01:12:40AM +0200, darkjames-ws@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 08:04:30PM -0400, Evan Huus wrote:
> > I don't really get this - it happens inconsistently that the "fast"
> > allocator takes longer to run than the "block" allocator. The fast
> > allocator does much less work, and runs substantially faster than the block
> > allocator everywhere I've tested it.
> > 
> > I don't know what glib's timing mechanism is like, but is it possible the
> > underlying machine is busy, so the wall-clock time is varying a lot?
> > 
> > I'm tempted to just disable the test, but that feels wrong.
> 
> Note that in simple allocator free all actually frees the data,
> where in block data it's just got reinitialized (and wmem_block_gc() do free).
> 
> So this test for simple allocator also checks how fast glib/system allocator can do 8192 allocation/deallocation of 2MB block,
> where block allocation do it just once.
> 
> Any reason why we don't have same logic in all allocators?

Sorry, was wrong, please ignore this mail ;-)

Should go sleep, now.