[fpc-devel] Compiler bottlenecks]

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Marco van de Voort schrieb:
> In our previous episode, Florian Klaempfl said:
>>>> zero it again, so where is the gain in that ?
>>> While it's in the freelist, the helper task 
>> ... thread ...
>>
>>> zeros it so when it is
>>> allocated again, it needs no zeroing again.
> 
> But that then zeroes every deallocation. 

A flag could be used to prevent zeroing at least at program shutdown (or 
the helper thread could be terminated).

DoDi