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malt-engineering is the company blog at blog.malt.engineering, writing about programming, ai and career. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this Malt engineering post, a 2021 write-up on switching a JVM container to jemalloc, when discussing whether the system allocator (musl) affects performance.
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What Hacker News says?
Jvm will also use whatever libc is available, afaik. Here's an article on switching a jvm container to jemalloc from 2021. But this isn't for the heap, it's just for the jvm itself & io related concerns! https://blog.malt.engineering/java-in-k8s-how-weve-reduced-m... Go is a rare counter example, which ignores the system allocator & bundles its own.
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