Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc

First impressions: LOL, the blunt commentary in the HN thread title compared to the PR-speak of the fb.com post.

Second thoughts: Actually the fb.com post is more transparent than I'd have predicted. Not bad at all. Of course it helps that they're delivering good news!

And the Oscar for most mealy-mouthed post of the year goes to…

I recently started using Microsoft's mimalloc (via an LD_PRELOAD) to better use huge (1 GB) pages in a memory intensive program. The performance gains are significant (around 20%). It feels rather strange using an open source MS library for performance on my Linux system.

There needs to be more competition in the malloc space. Between various huge page sizes and transparent huge pages, there are a lot of gains to be had over what you get from a default GNU libc.

How is the original author making out in the new arrangement?