jemalloc
jemalloc
Posted Mar 13, 2008 7:02 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (guest, #2582)In reply to: jemalloc by tialaramex
Parent article: A look at memory usage in Firefox 3
If your application is important enough to warrant writing or maintaining your own allocator, as has effectively happened with jemalloc in Firefox
No that's not what happened: jemalloc was written for FreeBSD (where it is the default in 7.0 and up), and ported to firefox with the help of the author, Jason Evans.
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