On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 01:48:27AM +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote:
> On 2020-09-21 17:59 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:07:18AM -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev 
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 9/21/20 9:36 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote:
> > > > I'm now looking at js78 because firefox-78.3.0 is out.  For the
> > > > moment I'm still using js68, but I can at least compare the js build
> > > > against 78.2.0.
> > > > 
> > > > Looking at that, we have '--disable-jemalloc' with the explanation:
> > > > This switch disables the internal memory allocator used in JS78.
> > > > jemalloc causes a conflict with glibc.
> > > > 
> > [...]
> > > > I've now looked at fedora,
> > > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mozjs78/blob/master/f/mozjs78.spec
> > > > 
> > > > It seems to me that they are not disabling jemalloc.
> 
> They are:
> 
> 
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mozjs78/blob/master/f/mozjs78.spec#_158
> 

I searched in firefox for jemalloc on my that specfile on my other
machine and didn't get any matches.  Probably I typo'd.  Thanks for
the link, and the extra wording is a lot clearer.

> > > > I think dropping --disable-jemalloc is a good idea. I think that's a
> > > holdover from when we first added it, I think js60 or js52? It was around
> > > the time that Gjs started requiring later versions of the Spidermonkey JS
> > > engine.
> > > 
> > > - Doug
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks. I've remeasured without it (faster, but might be normal rust
> > variation), will do that.
> 
> From
> https://github.com/mozilla-spidermonkey/spidermonkey-embedding-examples/blob/esr78/docs/Building%20SpiderMonkey.md
> :
> 
> > Disabling jemalloc
> > 
> > One important configuration when getting started is the --disable-jemalloc
> > flag. This will cause SpiderMonkey to use the system allocator functions
> > instead of a custom build of jemalloc. The custom configuration, which is 
> > the
> > default, is intended for a browser environment and requires linking the 
> > final
> > application with a matching version of a library called mozglue. If one
> > accidentally builds SpiderMonkey for their embedding without including the 
> > --
> > disable-jemalloc flag, they usually quickly encounter strange crashes as 
> > items
> > allocated in jemalloc allocator are freed on system allocator.
> 
> So don't do that.

You caught it just in time ;-)

ĸen
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