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Post #2438979
2026-04-21 20:23 UTC
@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.
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@oraculix@ieji.de 2026-04-22 09:14
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Now I wonder if this was yet another reason for the development of glibc alternatives like musl or dietlibc. And I wonder whether the folks @CachyOS@fosstodon.org have such malloc alternatives on their radar to squeeze out yet another grain of performance and stability.