Re: Intent to orphan and retire Hoard (a memory allocator)

2017-02-17 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1423712 Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software

Re: Intent to orphan and retire Hoard (a memory allocator)

2017-02-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 09:14:22PM +, Emery Berger wrote: > I am willing to take it over, if that is allowed, Absolutely. You should take a look at becoming a Fedora packager if you're not one already: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintenance_guide https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Jo

Intent to orphan and retire Hoard (a memory allocator)

2017-02-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Hoard is an alternative memory allocator (ie. malloc implementation) for C++. It is described in this 2000 paper: https://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/berger-asplos2000.pdf Fedora ships an old version (3.8) which fundamentally will not compile on aarch64 because it is missing a bit of assem