[petsc-dev] Using multiple mallocs with PETSc

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 10 March 2017 at 03:19, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>     PetscMallocRegister(malloc,realloc,free,&basicmalloc);
>     PetscMallocRegister(PetscMallocDebug,PetscReallocDebug,
> PetscFreeDebug,&debugmalloc);
>     PetscMallocRegister(PetscMallocHBW,PetscReallocHBW,PetscFreeHBW,&
> hbwmalloc);
>

I'm wondering whether we should also handle calloc() here, and implement
PetscCalloc properly. As I understand it, calloc != malloc+memset, and the
differences might be important in multicore+multithreading scenarios and
the first-touch policy.


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