MMU gang wars: the TLB drive-by shootdownThe problem Every once in a while I get involuntarily dragged into heated debates about whether reusing memory is better for performance than freeing it. TLDR: it is. If you want to find out why read on. Also, read on if your application maintains a transaction log or writes events to a journal. Now, I like to follow other systems performance specialists such as Martin Thompson or Brendan Gregg an
