As a relative layman, this all seemed reasonable and desirable - and the fact that he integrated it with pthreads seems particularly cool to me. NUMA awareness

As a relative layman, this all seemed reasonable and desirable - and the fact that he integrated it with pthreads seems particularly cool to me. NUMA awareness especially stood out as highly significant. The new supported sizes seems nice and shiny - if well utilised, it could improve performance and capacity in general, capabilities in the low-end and scaling in the high-end.