[oi-dev] Why are Firefox and Thunderbird built with jemalloc?

Aurélien Larcher aurelien.larcher at gmail.com
Mon Feb 20 21:01:35 UTC 2017


On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Aurélien Larcher <
aurelien.larcher at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> This is just a simple and honest question.
> I have rebuilt Firefox and Thunderbird with jemalloc disabled and linked
> to libumem.
> I am not sure if the behaviour is related to adjusting
> layout.frame_rate=24 or the memory alloc but Thunderbird seems less
> "bloated".
> Any experience?
>


(the underlying question being about memory fragmentation and such)



> Kind regards
>
> Aurélien
>
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