Valgrind now supports JEMalloc builds directly
Posted in Uncategorized on June 5th, 2012 Comments Off
Following some sterling hackery by Alexander Potapenko and Philippe Waroquiers, Valgrind/Memcheck now has direct support for JEMalloc, tcmalloc, and any other allocation library offering a malloc-style interface. This means you no longer need to build Firefox using –disable-jemalloc on Linux. You do still need –enable-valgrind, to stop V freaking out when JS GC scans the [...]