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Meta fork of the OG Jemalloc project

8 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2025-06-03 · latest 2026-09-18

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  1. Also, 7 months ago, https://github.com/facebook/jemalloc said > Development of Jemalloc will transition back to the original open source project: https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc . Meta’s fork of the Jemalloc project will be fully…
    comment by nextaccountic · 2026-09-18 · in Jemalloc 5.4.0
  2. Meta never abandoned jemalloc. https://github.com/facebook/jemalloc remained public the entire time. It's my understanding that Jason Evans, the creator of jemalloc, had ownership over the jemalloc/jemalloc repo which is why that one…
    comment by charcircuit · 2026-03-16 · in Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc
  3. …https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc has been archived recently, there is this fork from Facebook: https://github.com/facebook/jemalloc (7 commits ahead of the archived one so far) But also this just recently -…
  4. Meta has a fork that they still are working on, where development is continuing. https://github.com/facebook/jemalloc
    comment by charcircuit · 2025-06-13 · in Jemalloc Postmortem
  5. More: https://github.com/facebook/jemalloc/discussions/7
    comment by acj · 2025-06-09 · in Jemalloc Repositories Are Archived
  6. Looks like it got forked to https://github.com/facebook/jemalloc
    comment by Jalad · 2025-06-06 · in Jemalloc Repositories Are Archived
  7. https://github.com/facebook/jemalloc
    comment by miaekim · 2025-06-03 · in Jemalloc