Re: status of dj/malloc branch?

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> If you're wondering about the branch itself, the harsh answer is that
> I'm not maintaining it.
> 
> If you're wondering about the goals therein, IIRC we discovered we had
> no good way to visualize and analyze the heap itself in order to
> understand what causes the problem we're trying to solve.  While these
> are solvable problems, they're big projects and never quite made it to
> the top of our priority lists.

Thanks for the response.

I started doing my own tracing[1] in mwrap-perl[2] and it's
crazy expensive (I/O and storage) to trace all the allocations
done by a busy Perl process.  I had to add compression (using
zstd) to slow down the use of disk space; hope I can get useful
reproducible data before I run out of space.

[1] https://80x24.org/mwrap-perl/20240406214954.159627-1-e@80x24.org/
[2] https://80x24.org/mwrap-perl.git