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Date:      Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:04:03 +0200
From:      Paul Floyd <paulf2718@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Future of jemalloc on FreeBSD after archive
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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 As of June 2, 2025, jemalloc repository on Github has been archived.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






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