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

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2017, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
>> 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)

Libumem has been significantly improved after the fork from 
OpenSolaris.  It seems more optimized for speed than for memory 
efficiency.

It would be good to test with umem and without to see how well it 
actually works.

Bob
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