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   Christian Tietze (ctietze@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 15:56:33 JST Christian Tietze

   Friday Free Software Appreciation Day!

   👉 jemalloc/jemalloc https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc

   This is a C malloc implementation. It's meant to be included into your code, then it'll be used instead of the default function that allocates memory.

   I have never thought about replacing that functionality.

   Q: How much code can that be?
   A: Quite a bit!

   This project seems to be quite a feat. I also didn't understand much from a cursory reading. Totally out of my league.

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 15:56:32 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Ian Wagner

     @ianthetechie FUD. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#CryptixGeneralLicense

     It isn't the default because dlmalloc (which most GNU/Linux systems use) is generally better for most tasks.

     @ctietze

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     Ian Wagner (ianthetechie@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 15:56:33 JST Ian Wagner

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     @ctietze I actually use this quite a bit. There are some workloads that very much benefit from its properties.

     Too bad it’s not the default allocator for Linux distros, since the license isn’t “free” enough for GNU 😂