If you want to understand the life cycle of software, this history of jemalloc is not a bad start Remember: there is no bad or good here, and there is no intentionality. To assume there should have been a different outcome would be presumptuous. There just “is”. Not everybody unders…

If you want to understand the life cycle of software, this history of jemalloc is not a bad start
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Jason Evans The jemalloc memory allocator was first conceived in early 2004, and hasbeen in public use for about 20 years now. Thanks to the nature of open source software licensing,jemalloc will remain publicly ...

Uff!

"jemalloc Postmortem", Jason Evans (jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/j...).

Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4426...

On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/thpska/jem...

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Repo transitioned to Facebook

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Didn't see that coming, jemalloc repo was archived this weekend!

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As my #Friendica server, my-place.social, has grown to some 315 active users in just 5 months, I'm starting to hit up against #mariaDB limitations relating to the default memory manager, #MALLOC. This weekend I'm going to replace it with #jemalloc to reduce stalls, memory fragmentation issues […]

Release 0.10.1 · postmodern/ruby-install ruby Pass in the path of homebrew's jemalloc to ./configure via --with-opt-dir.

Released ruby-install 0.10.1 with a minor fix for homebrew users who also want to compile ruby with jemalloc support.

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#ruby #ruby_install #jemalloc #homebrew

Release 0.10.0 · postmodern/ruby-install If the installation directory or one of it's parent directories cannot be written to then ruby-install will exit with an error before attempting to build the Ruby. When running under a non-TTY, dis...

Released ruby-install 0.10.0! This release contains many small improvements to usability and better support for building CRuby with jemalloc or YJIT enabled.

$ ruby-install ruby -- --with-jemalloc
$ ruby-install ruby -- --enable-yjit

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#ruby #yjit #jemalloc