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| ▲ | baq 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| jemalloc is something you should be aware of if you do software for a living |
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| ▲ | rfgplk 4 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Why? Writing a memory allocator is quite simple, and I'd argue that _everyone_ should write one from scratch for any kind of high performance application. It's also trivial to outperform general purpose allocators that have to satisfy countless constraints. I've written numerous special purpose mallocs that are a) both provably (formally) safer than the standard armada and b) significantly faster (>10x throughput). |
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| ▲ | aktenlage an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They resumed development on jemalloc only recently, after years of no releases. |
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| ▲ | defrost an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The noted resumption and likely a small amount of halo effect from the Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms thread two / three days ago. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715318 |
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| ▲ | ck45 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I just checked whether it's the first release after Jason Evans stepped down as maintainer, but it isn't. That was the previous release, 5.3.1 |
