"mini roadmap" for userland for 3.7-dev branch

Alexey Zilber alexey at rightscale.com
Thu Nov 21 14:51:07 PST 2013


Throwing in a "crazy" idea:  Replace the default malloc with Google's
performance tools tcmalloc. Not the tcmalloc_minimal that anyone can
preload, but the full implementation.

-Alex
On Nov 22, 2013 3:09 AM, "John Marino" <dragonflybsd at marino.st> wrote:

> On 11/21/2013 20:00, Justin Sherrill wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:03 AM, John Marino <dragonflybsd at marino.st
> > <mailto:dragonflybsd at marino.st>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > This is a good list to have.  It's all maintenance material, though.
> >  Updates from other BSDs.  That's valuable, because it saves us a lot of
> > labor, but doesn't anybody have some crazy ideas?
>
>
> I would not classify much of this work as maintenance.
>
> The semaphores is pthreads work -- nobody has touched threads in years
> from what I can see.  Not trivial.
>
> Bringing in llvm/clang/libc++ is definitely not trivial.  It a huge,
> complex task.
>
> the new USB has never reached production so that's not maintenance either.
>
> OSS/ALSA - When was the last time somebody in dragonfly touched audio?
>
>
> Sure there's room for "crazy" but this list is plenty challenging.
>
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