The author of the jemalloc memory management library has announced that he is ceasing development of the project and has moved the GitHub repository to archive mode, allowing read-only access. The jemalloc library offered an alternative implementation of malloc functions, optimized for reducing fragmentation and working on multiprocessor systems. In 2005, the library was included in FreeBSD, and in 2007, it was used in Firefox.
In 2009, the author of jemalloc moved to Facebook, where the library was used in internal projects. In 2017, the author of jemalloc left Facebook, and the development was continued by the remaining team from Facebook. After renaming to Meta, the company's priorities changed, the library's development stalled, and the development focused only on internal needs. The public code base has degraded over time, and significant refactoring is now required to eliminate the accumulated technical debt. The author of jemalloc is not ready to spend his time on such refactoring, and therefore decided to wind down the development.
Source: opennet.ru
