Meta’s Renewed Commitment to jemalloc
18 points by gaffneyc
18 points by gaffneyc
TLDR; Meta is once again investing into making jemalloc a general purpose allocater and not just built for their purposes.
Related: https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/
What does this coded language mean?
In recent years, there has been a gradual shift away from the core engineering principles that have long guided jemalloc’s development.
probably just that they started rushing code out the door instead of taking the time to get it right, and that the accumulated technical debt finally caught up with them.