-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 15.01.2016 15:02, Rin Okuyama wrote: > Hi, > > On 2016/01/15 21:19, Iain Hibbert wrote: >> A few years ago I looked at libgnumalloc briefly, and found that >> >> % grep -Ri gnumalloc /usr/src /usr/xsrc >> >> seems to reveal that there are no actual users of libgnumalloc in >> our current tree.. the XFree86 and Xorg NetBSD.cf files disable >> it for NetBSD>1.4J, and pkgsrc showed nothing explicitly >> referring to it. >> >> The README file says >> >> | This is the standalone distribution of GNU malloc. | GNU malloc >> is part of the GNU C Library, but is also distributed | >> separately. >> >> but looking at gnu.org I don't see that the latter is still true, >> and our version is very old according to the VERSION file >> >> | this version of GNU malloc was obtained from | prep.ai.mit.edu >> on 9/22/1993. There was no version noted." >> >> ..are there any known uses for this, is it time to remove it? > > Also, anyone no longer uses libbsdmalloc. >
I think we should promote BSD jemalloc, which is used widely by e.g. Firefox and has active upstream (in FreeBSD). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWmPzsAAoJEEuzCOmwLnZszrEQAJBSrUR3BWQFXG9shrgk1Hww B1LMqExqsW21Gxowc6ylqQVDnpQxzzZz/li//30SUupaFUoaKfZC7hWFqF3EthLw mXhi7em+5vUntT0zT2xMZr7cm43MPb3FPs1SVl2qu6ZbOn8+EsBA/fSD/augxYOw Vpt7cUvPk+vX51Zaa1tyZ3X3+8SsrBGjAh4FcfetU4RoRc+2sCiK7L6bE9GcQtCW Ssyp7F38fOIVt/lXxdDlV3CUXmrXF8nf/MHJkcqsy7vwZnc6vfhnAfr27O89akCW WSmslZNt9mHZ0piFMBiRtQ7QAhroGQbGyEj3/HtnHkupNce8cpoBV1fS4m4RykGs P5/AfVWorTwpChYwZKPKM8SygzL7qzsxeXw0gQ7p7C2xWU8aGtu/Iasrlbutr5Ka IxXqTr7JCKoQrEqafSo5LBQ+Zoxhrt3WUcZA6KjjZpd1ow1bWEPamtN8B5EDbjYC Si/v8+Uy0uAsSyD14CFjajaptc8TeaClqC7KE5x+5OBRd2PXyWb26qCzNa83XCB2 wMHZvgRDHYfP2hDemYBNMajbLhTms5t0z5gq39aubghGbgue2Sritywy3CrpY9xC u6QOIkTALsbgOrfTQtunHwd4p92zDUgQ9OPWAMUquFsdpj6UQGPBG143OXyJshVn OmQ5Y4MGT01cvmcAG3wI =nbVL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
