Fewer mallocs is better, episode #47

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 10:23:51 +0100 (CET)

Hi,

Just wanted to share this fun fact with you all.

Here's my test command line:

     curl -sL https://google.com -o /dev/null

I ran this command line with 4 recent curl versions and I counted the total
number of allocations (using the script shown below). These are only
allocations done by curl and libcurl code, the dependencies' allocations are
not included.

  * 7.70.0

  Allocations: 415 Maximum allocated: 239432

  * 7.78.0

  Allocations: 391 Maximum allocated: 201926

  * 7.81.0

  Allocations: 391 Maximum allocated: 201700

  * 7.82.0-DEV (as of git master right now)

  Allocations: 174 Maximum allocated: 201684

This is a 55% reduction in number of allocations from 7.81.0 (while
maintaining and even shrinking the max amount a tiny bit)! The bulk of this
improvement comes from this single commit:
https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/955cb99130f7c

The test script, requires a curl built debug-enabled:

#!/bin/sh
export CURL_MEMDEBUG=$HOME/tmp/curlmem.log
./src/curl -sL https://google.com -o /dev/null
./tests/memanalyze.pl -v $HOME/tmp/curlmem.log

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Received on 2022-01-26