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Is this repo still maintained? #107
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There's a pretty big bug #106 that sees a lot of projects switch away from using this crate. It hasn't received any comment or apparent attempt at fixing from anyone in the rust wasm org/team in 2 months.
Also, there has only been 1 commit in the last 3 years. Is this crate still maintained? It looks like @fitzgen is the original author and the other team members are @ZackPierce and @pepyakin.
Maybe the bug could be mentioned in the readme to raise awareness, so that people don't spend a lot of time debugging something that is not solvable.
What are alternatives for this crate?
This crate is quite popular at 2k daily downloads.
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Titaniumtown commentedon May 18, 2022
I would like to know this too. I've been looking for alternatives but have been unable to find any good alternatives. Mimalloc doesn't work unless one uses emscripten purpleprotocol/mimalloc_rust#76 (comment). I don't know of any other ones that could be used.
Craig-Macomber commentedon Aug 9, 2022
I just wrote lol_alloc as an alternative to wee_alloc. Initially I tried to fix wee_alloc but I found it easier and more interesting to just make a new WASM allocator from scratch.
If you go and use lol_alloc, do not trust it: do some real testing before you trust it and report any issues. I have not used it in anything beyond a few minimal tests. Its quite likely full of worse bugs than wee_alloc has, but I'm confident I'll be able to fix them when found.
ZackPierce commentedon Aug 30, 2022
Effectively, no, I don't think this repo is maintained. I contributed a bit several years ago with a side feature, but my present work has moved away from using this crate, and I haven't been able to pull together enough free time to mount a real attempt at facing down the serious bugs.
pinkforest commentedon Aug 30, 2022
Cool. We'll flag unmaintained on it at rustsec/advisory-db#1394 to gently nudge any users .. just have to come up with a list of alternatives if possible other than the std one
@Craig-Macomber lol_alloc can be a honorable mention around research project around it :)
Craig-Macomber commentedon Aug 30, 2022
lol_alloc is the only alternative I know of other that std, at least for wasm32-unknown-unknown. I wrote it because I couldn't find anything else.
rustwasm/book still recommends using wee_alloc: https://github.com/rustwasm/book/search?q=wee_alloc&type=code
If someone wants to confirm those cases work with lol_alloc (I might someday, but not now) we might want to update them. Alternatively we could just have the book stick with std.
fix(picky-wasm): [SECURITY] remove wee_alloc dependency
fix(picky-wasm): [SECURITY] remove wee_alloc dependency (#176)
drop `wee_alloc` dependency
drop `wee_alloc` dependency (#18)
Titaniumtown commentedon Mar 26, 2023
I've now used lol_alloc without any issues for months now. Good work @Craig-Macomber
remove unmaintained weealloc
polarathene commentedon Nov 21, 2023
Since no comments in this issue have mentioned it, another alternative allocator that may be of interest is
talc(WASM README with light comparisons tolol_allocand the defaultdlmalloc).Craig-Macomber commentedon Nov 22, 2023
Thanks for the link. Not only does talc look like it fills the nitch of an actually good for general use but still smallish allocator, but also has much better perf data than I ever collected on lol_alloc myself. I may have to play with those benchmarks a bit.
switch wasm32 to lol_alloc