From b8668153dadc170e19240484b604a3ce6fd52ecd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 23:45:21 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] mingw: use mimalloc Thorough benchmarking with repacking a subset of linux.git (the commit history reachable from 93a6fefe2f ([PATCH] fix the SYSCTL=n compilation, 2007-02-28), to be precise) suggest that this allocator is on par, in multi-threaded situations maybe even better than nedmalloc: `git repack -adfq` with mimalloc, 8 threads: 31.166991900 27.576763800 28.712311000 27.373859000 27.163141900 `git repack -adfq` with nedmalloc, 8 threads: 31.915032900 27.149883100 28.244933700 27.240188800 28.580849500 In a different test using GitHub Actions build agents (probably single-threaded, a core-strength of nedmalloc)): `git repack -q -d -l -A --unpack-unreachable=2.weeks.ago` with mimalloc: 943.426 978.500 939.709 959.811 954.605 `git repack -q -d -l -A --unpack-unreachable=2.weeks.ago` with nedmalloc: 995.383 952.179 943.253 963.043 980.468 While these measurements were not executed with complete scientific rigor, as no hardware was set aside specifically for these benchmarks, it shows that mimalloc and nedmalloc perform almost the same, nedmalloc with a bit higher variance and also slightly higher average (further testing suggests that nedmalloc performs worse in multi-threaded situations than in single-threaded ones). In short: mimalloc seems to be slightly better suited for our purposes than nedmalloc. Seeing that mimalloc is developed actively, while nedmalloc ceased to see any updates in eight years, let's use mimalloc on Windows instead. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- config.mak.uname | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname index cdfb606f010ba4..2ebb82feb9f1b2 100644 --- a/config.mak.uname +++ b/config.mak.uname @@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),MINGW) HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H = YesPlease USE_GETTEXT_SCHEME = fallthrough USE_LIBPCRE = YesPlease - USE_NED_ALLOCATOR = YesPlease + USE_MIMALLOC = YesPlease NO_PYTHON = ifeq (/mingw64,$(subst 32,64,$(prefix))) # Move system config into top-level /etc/