Post #2438978
2026-04-21 19:34 UTC
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Being on the Linux side of things and not having written code on this level for many moons, I literally had no idea.
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange 2026-04-21 20:23
@oraculix@ieji.de It still amazes me that glibc defaults to such a bad malloc. There are a bunch of open-source mallocs that perform better. I’d like to replace jemalloc with snmalloc in FreeBSD at some point, but both are much faster than the glibc malloc.