Re: Future of jemalloc on FreeBSD after archive

On Jun 10, 2025, at 8:40 AM, Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM Minsoo Choo <minsoochoo0122@proton.me> wrote:
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>> As of June 2, 2025, jemalloc repository on Github has been archived. [1]
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> Is there any explanation why it got archived? It feels surprising as I
> recently heard news that Qt added some code to take advantage of
> jemalloc-specific functions.

From https://x.com/nateberkopec/status/1930010446410723533 & followups:

jemalloc mystery resolved: jemalloc has moved to the official Facebook github organization

context: for the last 2+ years the primary maintainers of jemalloc have been FB employees. this just formalizes Evans' stepping off the project.

jemalloc’s not dead ! The Meta fork is the new home, “still actively developing here” but issues now have to go in discussions https://github.com/facebook/jemalloc/discussions/7#discussioncomment-13394532

Contributor commit info shows pretty abrupt handoff from Jason Evans to Qi Wang (interwq) and David Goldblatt in 2017, so I presume this “small team” was primarily these 2. Note Qi Wang’s contributions tapering off, David stopped post-pandemic: LinkedIn says he left Meta in 2024