Comment by sanxiyn
1 day ago
As far as I know there is no technical reason why jemalloc shouldn't be the default allocator. In fact, as pointed out in the article, it IS the default allocator on FreeBSD. My understanding is it is largely political.
1 day ago
As far as I know there is no technical reason why jemalloc shouldn't be the default allocator. In fact, as pointed out in the article, it IS the default allocator on FreeBSD. My understanding is it is largely political.
Now that I think about it, I could easily imagine it being left out of glibc because it doesn't build on Hurd or something.
> I could easily imagine it being left out of glibc because [...]
... its license is BSD-2-Clause ;)
hence "political"
Huh? Bsd-style licenses are fully compatible with gpl.
The problem is exactly this: Facebook becomes the upstream of a key part of your system.
And Facebook can just walk away from the project. Like it did just now.
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