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authorschweikh <schweikh@FreeBSD.org>2001-11-01 11:36:04 +0000
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ We will refer to this as ``overhead time''.
B: How well does it manage the storage.
This rather vague metric we call ``quality of allocation''.
.PP
-The overhead time is easy to measure, just to a lot of malloc/free calls
+The overhead time is easy to measure, just do a lot of malloc/free calls
of various kinds and combination, and compare the results.
.PP
The quality of allocation is not quite as simple as that.
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ agree that it should be minimized as well, and if malloc(3) can do
anything to do so, it should.
Explanation why it is still a good metric follows:
.PP
-In a traditional segment/swap kernel, the desirable behaviour of a process
+In a traditional segment/swap kernel, the desirable behavior of a process
is to keep the brk(2) as low as possible, thus minimizing the size of the
data/bss/heap segment, which in turn translates to a smaller process and
a smaller probability of the process being swapped out, qed: faster
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