> The glibc support will be limited to replacing the malloc implementation because musl is a much more robust and cleaner base to build on and can cover the same use cases.<p>Glad that Android shares my opinions. This is based on the OpenBSD malloc without the OpenBSD-typical slowdowns to catch bugs, but with more hardening. No idea about the relation to Rich' latest rewritten musl malloc, which is less about hardening, more about performance.
I like the part where the blog mentioned certain malloc() library will break under ASLR (i.e., jemalloc, PartitionAlloc).<p>Arena methodology of malloc() design should have been implemented with ALSR enabled.