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Old 02-18-2008, 08:54 AM
Jonathan Thornburg
 
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Hi,

On 7.Oct.2006 you wrote
> after reviewing ben hawkes's ruxcon slides, there's a few things we can do
> to improve malloc.

[[...]]
> diff time!

[[...]]

This is really great! What's the likely time scale for these changes
to appear in -stable?

thanks, ciao,

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