jemalloc

jemalloc

Posted Mar 13, 2008 3:05 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)
In reply to: jemalloc by tialaramex
Parent article: A look at memory usage in Firefox 3

Fascinating discussion - I never knew Firefox used a different allocator - in fact, I was unaware that any userspace application could use any allocator other than what was provided by GNU libc (on GNU/Linux systems in particular).

When you mention "Google", what exactly are you talking about? I thought Google was a Web site/portal with online applications, not a userspace app running on someone's PC. Do you mean Google Earth? Thanks!

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http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html

Google has a ton of libraries, frameworks, general tools and other stuff , either developed as
an improvement to some in-house project and then released afterwards, or just created as a
service to other developers.