Jason Evans laid jemalloc to rest yesterday, and gave a kind shoutout to my malloc, aka. “phkmalloc”, and it occured to me, that I should write that story down. I wrote a little bit about it in my article for the 30 year aniversary issue of the FreeBSD Journal but there is more to it than that. Why¶ In FreeBSD we inherited Chris Kingsley’s malloc implementation from BSD, it worked, and we had much larger fish to fry, so we paid it no attention. During 1994 and 1995, RAM prices went through the r...