No ... I m not falling in love with Microsoft

but I have to admit they have interesting open source projects :-) True they have great interest supporting FreeBSD, that's a given ; but that is a great benefit regardless I think ... While mimalloc has a well deserved "summer time", I started to look somewhere else in the meantime and stumbled upon snmalloc, which sounded promising especially in multithread context, just looking at the description.

Benchmarking this is always very tricky, always depends on the nature of the software you override memory allocation with, you can always come up with a conclusion while your close neighbour would shake your shoulder and showing you a very contradictory output in his side ...

Nevertheless, I gave a try with several professional and personal projects of mine and what I notice usually is ... snmalloc performs a bit better than hoard but below mimalloc (still remarkable from the rest of the "pack"), with single thread applications. However, snmalloc is above the latter in multi thread context. More generally, my tests displayed they all perform better than the Linux's system allocator in the vast majority of the case. I usually played with hoard but the development is sort of frozen since a while (diehard from the same author is a nice toy to study by the way) or jemalloc before ; but those new players give nice extra choices to look at. As a result of my appreciation, I just pushed a basic openbsd support proposal :-)

This week had been a nice surprise to see American Fuzzy Lop "resurrected" on github in the official google account. Indeed, there was not much activities since the well known 2.52b version. For sure, libFuzzer from LLVM is great but like always, it is better to have multiple screwdrivers around you and I kinda like the sense of humour of this software, if you look carefully while it runs you will understand :-) but the results are very serious, its reputation is well deserved. Now trying to bring improvements ideas for BSD and mac I had since long months ; we will see.

Apart of this, LLVM 9, the first Apache2 licensed version, should occur end of August ... September maybe if more bugs are found. One noticeable thing in FreeBSD's side, for the future LLVM 10, there is a possible interesting fix ongoing from a famous CHERIBSD contributor, hopefully will make it soon-ish and I think it really deserves to be backported to the 9's line. Redis had merged my little FreeBSD support improvement, nodejs as well accepted my tiny OpenBSD build fix.

As American Fuzzy Lop would say "We're done here. Have a nice day !"

Shy sun

Hi folks,

Hopefully you are enjoying the sun, wherever you are ; resting from all high tech things and job possibly :-)
For the rest of us, there are still things ongoing. Little hook here, I wanted to mention the fact Diablo 1 works fully now under OpenBSD, it has been mentioned a couple of times in Twitter and so on, but now the multiplayer works too :-) Congratulations for this ; it must have given lot of joy that's for sure. The next important event in the BSD work would be the vBSDCon the program should appear not long after I write this post ; I hope you will enjoy it hopefully it will recorded.

Following up on the web technologies post, openjdk 11 and 12 ports on FreeBSD; 11 on OpenBSD had been updated, reflecting work from primary battleblow, bsdkurt and a bit myself. As well, I spent most of the time between nodejs (large pages had been accepted and now I try to fix few glitches here and there before next major release), php 7.4 and the future 8 (as I write the 7.4 branch will be frozen pretty soon) fixing little common bugs and improving support for FreeBSD and macOs ; also trying for the first time contributing to the v8 javascript engine to have a sense of their mindset and pace, basically a tiny change for macOs and a more significant one for FreeBSD. Also got to know better the main maintainer of Microsoft mimalloc who is very responsive to say the least, for now two/three changes (large pages for macOs and trying to make it more reliable for Linux) from my part but a lot ongoing for Windows ; it just comes from the daily usage then improvement ideas pop up time to time and I am glad he is open to these when they make sense.
Now time to rebuild the whole FreeBSD current machine, in the meantime I'll continue watching the Artic which is to me a very nice, if not the best, performance from the danish actor. Wish you well ;-)