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. > > Certainly I think it would be far more productive to talk to the glibc > maintainers first. > > 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. > > 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 summarize that particular aspect. -mike
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