On 02/26/2013 08:35 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 26/02/2013 14:33, Richard Yao wrote: >> Results such as these led Blender and others (e.g. Chrome/Chromium, >> Firefox, Thunderbird) to bundle private versions of jemalloc. This >> bundling situation violates our policy against bundled libraries. The >> maintainers could just patch their software to link to libjemalloc. >> However, it might make more sense to evaluate jemalloc as a >> distribution-wide replacement for glibc's ptmalloc. > > Short answer: no. >
Would you elaborate on this? From a brief chat in IRC, you mentioned Valgrind, but it looks like that issue has been solved: http://blog.mozilla.org/jseward/2012/06/05/valgrind-now-supports-jemalloc-builds-directly/ jemalloc probably should be merged at glibc upstream, but I have zero contact with glibc development, my Google searches have been fruitless and I want to know what other people think about this. I think it would be wrong to try to go to upstream with the idea if people downstream don't like the idea. Not to mention, glibc is not the only libc in Gentoo and this applies to each of them.
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