jemalloc
jemalloc
Posted Mar 13, 2008 13:09 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: jemalloc by rsidd
Parent article: A look at memory usage in Firefox 3
Also, `just rewrite it dammit' is not always the right answer. The malloc() in glibc has a lot of arcane knowledge and nifty speedups for obscure situations in it: replacing it wholesale would throw all that knowledge away. A malloc() which works slightly better in most circumstances but drastically worse in some is perhaps not an improvement (not that this is necessarily true of jemalloc: I haven't checked, but *consistent* behaviour has always been a major focus of glibc malloc()).
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