On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Alexey Zilber <[email protected]> wrote: > Throwing in a "crazy" idea: Replace the default malloc with Google's > performance tools tcmalloc. Not the tcmalloc_minimal that anyone can > preload, but the full implementation. > > -Alex
Google perftools's memory allocator (tcmalloc) has some tradeoffs which may make it suboptimal as a system-wide allocator. This space offers a fascinating set of tradeoffs, actually. -- vs;
