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Are there plans afoot to upgrade to this in Firefox? It'd be interesting to see how much effect these improvements have on Firefox [1], which has been gaining w

by kardos 11y ago

Are there plans afoot to upgrade to this in Firefox? It'd be interesting to see how much effect these improvements have on Firefox [1], which has been gaining weight for the last 3 years... [1] https://areweslimyet.com/ https://areweslimyet.com/

uxcn 11y ago
According to a comment[1] I read, it's being worked on but jemalloc 3 still isn't enabled by default. I guess it could improve performance for some things, but I think less fragmentation would be the only major win for overall footprint. [1] http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/programming-compilers/820702-jemalloc-4-0-brings-space-speed-optimizations http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/programming-co...
- dblohm7 11y ago
  Here's the bug for jemalloc3 by default: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762449 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762449
glandium 11y ago
As of tomorrow's nightly, Firefox should be using jemalloc 4.0+ (actually current dev branch tip + 2 extra patches). It's not set to ride the trains yet, meaning it won't be in Developer Edition 43.0a2 in a few weeks unless things change.