Re: Future of jemalloc on FreeBSD after archive
- In reply to: Minsoo Choo : "Future of jemalloc on FreeBSD after archive"
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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:04:03 UTC
On 6/9/25 22:08, Minsoo Choo wrote: > As of June 2, 2025, jemalloc repository on Github has been archived. [1] > I have a differential revision open for jemalloc 5.3.0 [2], but have > no idea how we will fix bugs and improve jemalloc on FreeBSD after the > archive. > > We could fork the repository to freebsd/jemalloc and continue to > develop by ourselves. Then, we need to build our own CI systems for > jemalloc to test on macOS/Linux as well. > > I CC'ed Warner as he guided me for D41421, so I'm seeking for his > advice this time as well. > > [1] https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc > [2] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D41421 It seems to be fairly dead, See this on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1la7r64/jemalloc_postmortem/ I would recommend looking for an alternative unless Meta really do make some effort to keep development going. A+ Paul