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Re:TCMalloc and MySQL by jeffdavis on Friday February 22, 2013 @02:28AM (#5263173)
Strange, the page showed up first when I googled "tcmalloc" and the problem was also present in the version that I was using (at least I think it was). My apologies.

Yeah, regarding [2], that was definitely not my idea.

Re:TCMalloc and MySQL by sghemawat on Friday February 22, 2013 @02:53AM (#5263221)
Not your fault. We just plain forgot to update the documentation, so the freshest available document is a few years out of date.