Dne 26.7.2018 v 18:03 Jason L Tibbitts III napsal(a):
>>>>> "FW" == Florian Weimer
<fweimer(a)redhat.com> writes:
FW> I would like to request a change of the Packaging Guidelines,
FW> advising packagers not to interpose malloc.
How strong of a restriction are you looking for? This sort of feels
like something which would at the strongest be a "SHOULD NOT" but maybe
you're looking for an absolute ban.
Some maintainers may find it difficult to comply with an absolute ban if
the relevant software doesn't make it easy to change the allocator. And
some upstreams may have strong preferences for one allocator over
another (which I imagine would often be linked to performance). Will
assistance be offered to modify affected packages? What about
contacting upstreams?
How many packages would need to change to meet this guideline?
Just FTR, there is ongoing discussion about changing default to jemalloc
in Ruby:
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14718
Wouldn't it be better if glibc maintainers joined such discussions to
improve glibc malloc implementation?
V.