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From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Evaluating a new malloc()
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:36:17
Message-Id: 512CBA2F.7090806@flameeyes.eu
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Evaluating a new malloc() by Richard Yao
1 On 26/02/2013 14:33, Richard Yao wrote:
2 > Results such as these led Blender and others (e.g. Chrome/Chromium,
3 > Firefox, Thunderbird) to bundle private versions of jemalloc. This
4 > bundling situation violates our policy against bundled libraries. The
5 > maintainers could just patch their software to link to libjemalloc.
6 > However, it might make more sense to evaluate jemalloc as a
7 > distribution-wide replacement for glibc's ptmalloc.
8
9 Short answer: no.
10
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12 Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
13 flameeyes@×××××××××.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Evaluating a new malloc() Richard Yao <ryao@g.o>