Linux 6.8 To Drop SLAB While Delivering A SLUB Optimization: 34% Micro-Benchmark Win

[caligula]

Makes you wonder whether SLEB and SLIB are already deprecated or just upcoming.

Don't forget SLÜB and SLÖB in german suse distributions.

[uxmkt]

SLAB=slab (no idea why it started to be capitalized, original (?) allocator)

"People" problems. First use of 'slab' as 'SLAB' outside of obvious preprocessor macros (CONFIG_SLAB) seems to be linux-2.1.23.

[WileEPyote]

Am I the only one that has absolutely no idea what any of this means? lol

[NotMine999]

Micro optimizations are awesome.

It makes me wonder though, does Windows ever recieve such tweaks given its closed source?

From my experience, package- and kernel updates in the Linux ecosystem usually improve my system and it'a noticeable, unlike Windows where it gets slower or breaks.

I wonder if a lot of that Microsoft sluggishness is due to added DRM, licensing coding/enforcement, and a steady addition of tweeks & workarounds that support developers that refuse to stop using "secret" M$ API calls rather than documented M$ API calls.

[varikonniemi]

Am I the only one that has absolutely no idea what any of this means? lol

previously there were different memory allocators to choose from. Going forward only the one that turned out to be best will remain. This simplifies the code and allows for optimizations.