On 26 February 2013 16:37, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > On Tuesday 26 of 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. > > > > Certainly I think it would be far more productive to talk to the glibc > > maintainers first. > > You mean productive like below? ;) > > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11261 > > Ulrich Drepper: > "Stop reopening. There is a solution for people who are stupid enough to > create too many threads. No implementation will be perfect for everyone. > The > glibc implementation is tuned for reasonable programs and will run much > faster > than any other I tested." > > Merge of jemalloc upstream is likely never going to happen. > > regards > MM It could happen. Ulrich Drepper is no longer in charge of Glibc and he's barely involved in the development at all recently from what i've heard/seen.