Dne 26.7.2018 v 18:03 Jason L Tibbitts III napsal(a):
>>>>>> "FW" == Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> writes:
> FW> I would like to request a change of the Packaging Guidelines,
> FW> advising packagers not to interpose malloc.
>
> How strong of a restriction are you looking for?  This sort of feels
> like something which would at the strongest be a "SHOULD NOT" but maybe
> you're looking for an absolute ban.
>
> Some maintainers may find it difficult to comply with an absolute ban if
> the relevant software doesn't make it easy to change the allocator.  And
> some upstreams may have strong preferences for one allocator over
> another (which I imagine would often be linked to performance).  Will
> assistance be offered to modify affected packages?  What about
> contacting upstreams?
>
> How many packages would need to change to meet this guideline?

Just FTR, there is ongoing discussion about changing default to jemalloc
in Ruby:

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14718

Wouldn't it be better if glibc maintainers joined such discussions to
improve glibc malloc implementation?


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