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Working draft of nextgen malloc implementation for musl libc

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2020-05-05 · latest 2025-09-08

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  1. …for exactly those reasons. Maybe they still used the old musl libc? The new one was drafted here: https://github.com/richfelker/mallocng-draft
  2. …it's usually down to musl's malloc being slower than glibc's. They are working on a new malloc. https://github.com/richfelker/mallocng-draft
    comment by tyingq · 2021-06-03 · in The Need for Slimmer Containers
  3. …malloc implementation is currently being re-written for higher performance and robustness, see https://github.com/richfelker/mallocng-draft
    comment by jessermeyer · 2020-05-05 · in Why does musl make my Rust code so slow?