"mini roadmap" for userland for 3.7-dev branch

[Venkatesh Srinivas]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Alexey Zilber <alexey at rightscale.com> wrote:
> 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

Google perftools's memory allocator (tcmalloc) has some tradeoffs
which may make it suboptimal as a system-wide allocator. This space
offers a fascinating set of tradeoffs, actually.

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