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dymk on June 13, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Jemalloc Postmortem

Technology marches on, and in some number of years other allocators will exist that outperform/outfeature jemalloc.

jcelerier on June 13, 2025 | [–]

This number of years depending on your allocation profile could be something like -10 years easily. New allocators constantly crop up

edflsafoiewq on June 13, 2025 | [–]

Presumably then the performance impact of any switch will be positive.

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