Archive for February, 2008

jemalloc on trunk — linux edition

February 27, 2008

Back on the 12th of February we turned jemalloc on in our Linux builds.  Sorry for not posting sooner!  We saw a good performance increase and a drop in memory.  Neither were as large as the wins we saw on Windows but still good.  I tried tuning the glibc allocator a bit but was mostly [...]

jemalloc now on the trunk

February 5, 2008

Our Windows nightlies (beta4pre, this is not in beta 3) now include jemalloc. These builds are leaps and bounds better than the last build I posted.
Tons of amazing work has gone in to this. I’d like to thank Jason for making all the crazy changes to jemalloc that we wanted and Ted for [...]