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Feature #4829

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Improve performance with TCMalloc

Added by Junxiao Shi almost 6 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

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#3564-24 benchmark demonstrates that NFD forwarding performance can be improved by 10% if changing memory allocator from glibc malloc to TCMalloc.
Enabling TCMalloc is as simple as installing libgoogle-perftools-dev package and adding -ltcmalloc linker flag.
This is a low-hanging fruit to improve NFD performance.

This issue involves:

  1. In install instructions, suggest installing libgoogle-perftools-dev package.
  2. In build scripts, detect the availability of libtcmalloc.so. If it's available, add linker flag to enable TCMalloc.
  3. In package definition, make libgoogle-perftools-dev a dependency so that released packages are linked with TCMalloc.
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Updated by Davide Pesavento over 5 years ago

  • Target version deleted (v0.7)

There is also https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc

Quoting the README: "In our benchmarks [...], mimalloc always outperforms all other leading allocators (jemalloc, tcmalloc, Hoard, etc), and usually uses less memory (up to 25% more in the worst case). A nice property is that it does consistently well over a wide range of benchmarks."

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