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diff --git a/talloc_guide.txt b/talloc_guide.txt index ae75f73d8e..24438ba722 100644 --- a/talloc_guide.txt +++ b/talloc_guide.txt @@ -39,6 +39,18 @@ source/torture/local/talloc.c to clarify how some particular situation is handled. +Performance +----------- + +All the additional features of talloc() over malloc() do come at a +price. We have a simple performance test in Samba4 that measures +talloc() versus malloc() performance, and it seems that talloc() is +about 10% slower than malloc() on my x86 Debian Linux box. For Samba, +the great reduction in code complexity that we get by using talloc +makes this worthwhile, especially as the total overhead of +talloc/malloc in Samba is already quite small. + + talloc API ---------- |