Augustin Cavalier 9cd1e917ef libroot/posix: Enable OpenBSD malloc by default.
jam HaikuDepot with nothing to do, best of many runs:

hoard2
real    0m3.519s
user    0m3.348s
sys     0m0.159s

openbsd
real    0m3.481s
user    0m3.327s
sys     0m0.147s

time printf "continue\nsave-report\nquit\nk\n" | Debugger -c Debugger -s 1000

hoard2
real    0m2.295s
user    0m2.505s
sys     0m0.128s

openbsd
real    0m2.896s
user    0m2.809s
sys     0m0.579s

The performance difference in Debugger is due to OpenBSD malloc
actually decommitting memory. If we disable decommit, then
OpenBSD malloc is faster than hoard2 in this case also.

In some particular cases this is a huge speedup. For example, the link
of the "lto-dump" program in GCC seems to hit a pathological case in
hoard2 and our glue code for it; with hoard2 it takes around 23 seconds,
but with this allocator it takes only 2 seconds (!). Overall the
performance difference is much more modest, though.

Overall, system memory usage seems to be up about ~5% (318 MB -> 334 MB
just after boot), and that seems to mostly be due to the allocator
filling its initial caches faster when allocations occur, rather than
lazily allocating.

Change-Id: I071d8f76fbbfa11547bd6da6bf649d111414e780
Reviewed-on: https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/8974
Reviewed-by: waddlesplash <waddlesplash@gmail.com>
Haiku-Format: Haiku-format Bot <no-reply+haikuformatbot@haiku-os.org>
Tested-by: Commit checker robot <no-reply+buildbot@haiku-os.org>
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Haiku

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Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.

Goals

  • Sensible defaults with minimal configuration required.
  • Clean, clear, concise code.
  • Unified desktop environment.

Trying Haiku

Haiku provides pre-built nightly images and release images. Haiku is compatible with a large variety of hardware, but in case you don't want to "take the plunge" and install Haiku on bare metal, you can install it on a virtual machine (VM) instead. If you've never used a VM before, you can follow one of the "Emulating Haiku" guides.

Compiling Haiku

See ReadMe.Compiling.

Contributing

Haiku is a meritocratic open source project with a large variety of tasks. Even if you can't write code, you can still help! Haiku needs designers, (technical) writers, translators, testers... Get involved and help out!

Contributing code

If you're submitting a patch to us, please make sure you're following the patch submitting guidelines.

If you're having trouble finding something in the source tree, you can use one of our web-based source code browsers:

Contributing documentation

The main piece of documentation that still needs work are the API docs (found in the tree at docs/user). Just find an undocumented class, write documentation for it, and submit a patch.

Contributing translations

See wiki:i18n.

Contributing software ports

See HaikuPorts.

Contributing to our infrastructure

See Infrastructure.

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