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sim: Remove FastAlloc

Review Request #1239 - Created May 30, 2012 and submitted

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Ali Saidi
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Changeset 9036:2e9bf0ce5aca
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sim: Remove FastAlloc. 

While FastAlloc provides a small performance increase (~1.5%) over regular malloc it isn't thread safe. 
After removing FastAlloc and using tcmalloc I've seen a performance increase of 12% over libc malloc 
when running twolf for ARM. 

   
Review request changed
Updated (June 4, 2012, 3:27 p.m.)

Status: Closed (submitted)