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Investigate the tradeoffs of scudo vs gmalloc

Added by Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli over 3 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.

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04/27/2021
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Updated by Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli over 3 years ago

dllud found out in https://source.android.com/devices/tech/debug/scudo that the default memory alocator could be configured somehow ("Starting in the Android 11 release, scudo is used for all native code (except on low-memory devices, where jemalloc is still used).").

So it might be interesting to see which one is the best for our uses cases, especially because we might have some low-memory devices but also want to bring in security that don't have impact on practical users freedoms.

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