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		panamafrank on March 15, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud Did you guys use a custom allocator for rust? And if so how did it differ from jemalloc and how could it be compared to C++ allocators like tbb::scalable_allocator?

jamwt on March 15, 2016 [–]

We use a custom version of jemalloc, with profiling enabled so that we can use it.

We also tweak jemalloc pretty heavily for our workload.

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