On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Maciej Mrozowski <reave...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 26 of February 2013 11:44:31 Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> 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."
Drepper is no longer around. Upstream glibc is really friendly now, probably in an attempt to throw off the image you rightly had. > Merge of jemalloc upstream is likely never going to happen. Indeed, but not because of Drepper, but rather because GNU projects require copyright assignment for non-trivial contributions and I highly doubt that the jemalloc developers who put it under the BSD license are going to be okay with relicensing to LGPLv3+ and assigning copyright on their work to the FSF.
