jemalloc Postmortem (jasone.github.io)
from tedu@inks.tedunangst.com to inks@inks.tedunangst.com on 17 Jun 21:07
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The jemalloc memory allocator was first conceived in early 2004, and has been in public use for about 20 years now. Thanks to the nature of open source software licensing, jemalloc will remain publicly available indefinitely. But active upstream development has come to an end. This post briefly describes jemalloc’s development phases, each with some success/failure highlights, followed by some retrospective commentary.

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