Post #1551031
2026-04-21 16:22 UTC
TIL about #jemalloc, a scalable concurrent malloc(3) implementation for #FreeBSD and #Linux, only to find out it had its 20th birthday a few days ago! 🎂
Check out the original paper on https://papers.freebsd.org/2006/bsdcan/evans-jemalloc/
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange 2026-04-21 16:41
@oraculix@ieji.de It’s been the default malloc in FreeBSD for most of that time.
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@shinguz@net.miaumuh.ch 2026-04-21 18:43
@oraculix@ieji.de and the project is abandoned...