From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1913015808A for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:53:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.gentoo.org (bobolink.gentoo.org [140.211.166.189]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange x25519) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: relay-lists.gentoo.org@gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 04545341F6D for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:53:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bobolink.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bobolink.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAC62110566; Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:52:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from layka.disroot.org (layka.disroot.org [178.21.23.139]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange x25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by bobolink.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 02F8611055E for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:52:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail01.disroot.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by disroot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8347E25920 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:52:36 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: SPAM Filter at disroot.org Received: from layka.disroot.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (disroot.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavis, port 10024) with ESMTP id UzGYBjjngyGP for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:52:35 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=disroot.org; s=mail; t=1753789955; bh=QCntxYSobEy0StJuqE5ZNQZBXZw40DILcSp5D8pqJgA=; h=Date:Subject:To:References:From:In-Reply-To; b=hQLClHDqfWynygelJt/7lmcEkjIbxzrBwob/S7lPP6UYYeb9afHgsPITgNBhXXysC EhjhBGztg6SNs8b3EuqwW+J6by+XfK/gmmk4kR14r8agELJOitpTX0zCFNyOIUnH1e LOfV9VVAN9mzAzrHnLSppDXTJk9WfyZqh9y82KlLNbDjWAC3rPtFzTGDNaW0N+C3Hr ehfShQEBR3or40LUsU2w53ERtdRHNUSZh8O2nJDFh23+7FN4j91xFbu0oZc+FNReLp wH0cgGgAJt+vlLEXTPe6d0moT5R3h2JPwjd8yEMhUHFR4Ei2S6g8y3waScmqUVaem4 tJz/kW2pNj9pg== Message-ID: <1fa4d75a-a490-428d-ba1a-5553fd968023@disroot.org> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:52:34 +0200 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <6ee617916095e4a821437344e0b297bd3b1d9097.camel@gentoo.org> <68390a6f-1db6-4a4c-842f-f4d7e13b8145@disroot.org> Content-Language: en-US From: Michal Rostecki In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 48a113dc-0d82-4ec4-a058-93c8d75abe9e X-Archives-Hash: 9bd6ff68b5ef948bc34490aca92892eb On 7/27/25 16:32, Ionen Wolkens wrote: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 01:24:28PM +0200, Michal Rostecki wrote: >> On 7/26/25 17:48, Michał Górny wrote: >>> dev-libs/jemalloc >> >> I can volunteer for this one. In general, I'm interested in keeping the >> non-libc allocator libs (jemalloc, mimalloc) up-to-date. > > Unlikely that jemalloc will need updates unless it gets a fork, it's > essentially dead last I know of[1] and the official repo is archived. > Once it breaks, last-riting may be a better option than trying to > maintain it downstream. > > [1] https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/ I thought https://github.com/facebook/jemalloc can end up having new releases, but given Jason's statements about them (I somehow missed this post, my bad...), it indeed seems like last-riting and moving to other allocators is a better option.