From: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
To: "Cristian Rodríguez" <cristian@rodriguez.im>
Cc: Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com, e@80x24.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFT] malloc: reduce largebin granularity to reduce fragmentation
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:50:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xnpluu2qti.fsf@greed.delorie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPBLoAfHRKGRjFQFKHXwK6vX7xxUqkoj-_sttmfn4FgiEgondA@mail.gmail.com>\r
(message from Cristian Rodríguez on Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:35:38 -0400)
Cristian Rodrguez <cristian@rodriguez.im> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 11:19 AM Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com> wrote:
>
>> My general feeling is that this allocator is way too ancient and hacked up to
>> compete with modern allocators like jemalloc or mimalloc.
>
> both are licensed as free software so glibc could adopt any of them.
> will that happen is the actual question.
This comes up occasionally, so I'll just link
https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/xny3dw8l5o.fsf@greed.delorie.com/
https://lwn.net/Articles/761502/
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2024-04-12 21:50 ` DJ Delorie [this message]
2024-04-12 15:19 [RFT] malloc: reduce largebin granularity to reduce fragmentation Wilco Dijkstra
2024-04-12 15:35 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2024-04-12 17:02 ` Eric Wong
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2024-04-09 9:33 Eric Wong
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