From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E44EB198005 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:05:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B1F87E044C; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:05:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D8EFCE02CB for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:05:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08E0433DB7A for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:05:00 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Evaluating a new malloc() Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:08:38 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.7.6; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <512CB9B8.9060308@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2681707.JGTJF7egpO"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201303191708.38874.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 611fe5dd-68ae-426a-abdc-e7c6edef7cf0 X-Archives-Hash: 073e5c06fe98cfc8de3d0dd263ba9907 --nextPart2681707.JGTJF7egpO Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday 26 February 2013 11:44:31 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Alec Warner wrote: > > I see a *HUGE* reason. glibc ships with ptmalloc. If you think they > > should use jemalloc, talk to them. Don't just do it in Gentoo. >=20 > Certainly I think it would be far more productive to talk to the glibc > maintainers first. >=20 > However, nothing prevents anybody from creating a Gentoo package with > an alternative glibc implementation, patchset, whatever, assuming they > are willing to maintain it. It really is no different from having an > alternative udev implementation. Gentoo is about choice. >=20 > Now, whether it ever becomes the /default/ choice is another matter > entirely. Nobody can prevent people from experimenting - Gentoo > developers are permitted to waste their time if desired. :) i'm not interested in maintaining it in sys-libs/glibc. so that should=20 summarize that particular aspect. =2Dmike --nextPart2681707.JGTJF7egpO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJRSNPWAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WB0VwP/jE9Etto7Ube4/3jVAjZNqKS hF42HwVGQbk+3ZJbuc+xu1fZbXpMg/fmOggQMJo0yWkb9GU+uHqoOTD8bDIIxRlS oQuDIvXH9pPnaUtTQOI3ij5g4qmW5CK8yV/OjaK7PO4juMxReB365fRQP4/mm7Co KWsuT7J/eebQCF/zEieDi75sMDc16qIn1h6OM6YXxog/wYqhNym3SPlw0Fx6bUlz yTgv/q2KWQH1uGiu1dFDJMh4gdEFQksaL2PTrRtYaWXk2si9L4+m6SRPIScBWXx6 KGlSrQoCPqWHOpeyCgew1RN0uGmsYJoyEJf+fo5e7lIEbYONfp9Azs9qkoYl6yND me2p3q6EOrXlZ3zDg8fi43dEz7JDSNBUUwyL8fwOYQOwX/sxUfLyxUNnhCNn+WY4 ZSEZaQ7BCV+2CWXLyAJ45Is5j5BB8fpLGAE0UCQLCotnwC2jZsHbs8sVZ1xCp3ck WLgXE9cB834dyLBOnfDxzea5q238otSOg1frpWczsORs3buSRxJZ/zNj4A+rlwtc kYWNfMZQx6NIVh6nx9uTbLA7auOJ2gopqiQaow70GjrYmZNFpKtMWgXoE/PowRrW hZoOTdnDBmFebeOzGeS/x6+zUBXTHEnTqDYqe99JmEqWUoz7KWO1HkYQGXjKiCnU PXUmRYeX2pkdR7kYZ8i0 =o0gu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2681707.JGTJF7egpO--