Re: GNUstep on Windows using Clang + MSVC ABI

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

> On 29 Jan 2021, at 16:28, David Chisnall <gnustep@theravensnest.org> wrote:
> 

>  We have given up supporting MinGW for snmalloc and I am considering 
> optionally supporting snmalloc for Objective-C object allocations since it is 
> much faster than the system malloc on most platforms and is particularly good 
> for fixed-size allocations as are common in Objective-C.  It would be a shame 
> for this to be an everywhere-except-Windows thing.

Hi David,  I am giving snmalloc a try, but I'm wondering if (and why) you think 
it is actually better than mimalloc?
As far as I can tell mimalloc ticks the general performance boxes and is 
admirably small (ie relatively simple code).
My interest is probably unusual in that it's primarity about maintaining a low 
memeory footprint for long running processes rather than about speed, so if 
snmalloc does a better job of avoiding fragmentation it would be very appealing.