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Meta has a fork that they still are working on, where development is continuing. https://github.com/facebook/jemalloc https://github.com/facebook/jemalloc
by charcircuit 1y ago
Meta has a fork that they still are working on, where development is continuing.
https://github.com/facebook/jemalloc https://github.com/facebook/jemalloc
- burnt-resistor 1y agoThey take everything FLOSS and ruin it with bureaucracy, churn, breakage, and inconsideration to external use. They may claim FOSS broadly but it's mostly FOSS-washed, unusable garbage except for a few popular things.
- School-Cotton 1y agoReact, PyTorch, and RocksDB are all extremely significant. Not to mention them being one of the biggest contributors to the Linux kernel.
- nh2 1y agoThe point of the blog post is that repo is over-focused on Facebook's needs instead of "general utility": > as a result of recent changes within Meta we no longer have anyone shepherding long-term jemalloc development with an eye toward general utility > we reached a sad end for jemalloc in the hands of Facebook/Meta > Meta’s needs stopped aligning well with those of external uses some time ago, and they are better off doing their own thing.