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> In Android 11, Scudo replaces jemalloc as the default native allocator for Android. Scudo is a hardened memory allocator designed to help detect and mitigate memory corruption bugs in the heap

This comment of mine did not age well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23560040. I'm curious what the performance impact of the change was?

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I think it aged fine. I certainly hadn't heard of it, and I bet most people were in the same boat.

Really, you just asked a legitimate question, and now today you have a legitimate answer. I'd call that a win!

Not knowing about the memory allocator in an upcoming release of an operating system used by over a billion people is a bit of a lapse on my part ;)

re: Performance, my reply here [0] to a similar question might be of interest.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23692806

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