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Re:Rust 1.32 released by jabl on Friday January 18, 2019 @04:06AM (#18938021)
There was a mention somewhere that rustc (the compiler itself) still uses jemalloc, glibc 2.24(?) was about 10% slower. Compilers tend to use a lot of small allocations, so most code probably is less affected than that.

I think the big selling point of jemalloc when it appeared was that it was much better for multithreaded applications. But since then glibc has improved a lot in this area, and nowadays has a similiar design with per-thread pools etc.

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