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Posted Mar 13, 2008 14:52 UTC (Thu) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)
In reply to: jemalloc by tialaramex
Parent article: A look at memory usage in Firefox 3

... and for the avoidance of doubt, I didn't intend to hide Jason's credit or imply that
Mozilla.org people are doing all the hard work, but only that this sort of thing doesn't come
free. Firefox developers decided that it was worth it, but for most Free Software projects,
it's going to make sense to use the system allocator unless it's absolutely dire.


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