Faidon Liambotis <parav...@debian.org> writes:

> In general, jemalloc is (copying from the package description): "a
> library providing a malloc(3) implementation for multi-threaded
> processes on multi-processor systems". Given that Hurd right now doesn't
> even support SMP, I wonder if there is even much point in going deep
> down that rabbithole in an attempt to fix all of those issues.

That's fair, particularly given that the Hurd is not a release
architecture and only about a dozen source packages build-depend on
jemalloc.  Thanks anyway for looking into it!  (Sorry I can't suggest
patches myself; I'm not deeply familiar with the Hurd, just like to call
attention to portability issues in general.)

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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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