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

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 7:57 PM, Till Wegmüller <toasterson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 20.02.2017 23:01, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Aurélien Larcher
>> <aurelien.larcher at gmail.com <mailto: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)
>>
>>
> Do we have this kind of Situation ?
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422055



I do not know, I was just curious since Bryan Cantrill's horror stories on
jemalloc.
So I was wondering about the "why" of messing with it instead of using
libumem.


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