JEMALLOC POSTMORTEM

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

jemalloc is a memory allocator that has been maintained for about 20 years. It is now no longer being maintained. The postmortem describes jemalloc's evolution through phases at FreeBSD, Firefox, and Facebook/Meta, highlighting successes like improved performance and telemetry, as well as failures such as fragmentation issues and the controversial removal of Valgrind support.