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From: Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Evaluating a new malloc()
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:38:04
Message-Id: 3392533.WNcSa2bQvd@lebrodyl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Evaluating a new malloc() by Rich Freeman
1 On Tuesday 26 of February 2013 11:44:31 Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:
3 > > I see a *HUGE* reason. glibc ships with ptmalloc. If you think they
4 > > should use jemalloc, talk to them. Don't just do it in Gentoo.
5 >
6 > Certainly I think it would be far more productive to talk to the glibc
7 > maintainers first.
8
9 You mean productive like below? ;)
10
11 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11261
12
13 Ulrich Drepper:
14 "Stop reopening. There is a solution for people who are stupid enough to
15 create too many threads. No implementation will be perfect for everyone. The
16 glibc implementation is tuned for reasonable programs and will run much faster
17 than any other I tested."
18
19 Merge of jemalloc upstream is likely never going to happen.
20
21 regards
22 MM

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Evaluating a new malloc() Jeff Horelick <jdhore@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Evaluating a new malloc() Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>