alt Hacker NewsRipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches
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The analysis of the kernel bug may be a better thing to link to: https://github.com/dfoxfranke/ripgrep-3494-analysis.
It's never a kernel bug... until it is!
No wonder search in codex is so a$$
So, why the bug triggers only with muslc and not other libc ?
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wow, everything is broken lol
This is a bit sad. Here we have an example of rust and musl struggling whereas C/C++ and glibc does not. That's an oversimplification, but we also had not long ago the rewrite of ... I believe it was coreutils, in rust (or was it utillinux ... but I think it was coreutils), also have issues. Rust needs to toughen up here when it really wants to replace all of C in the linux ecosystem. Alternatively it could admit failure, then people can say that C will be - and remain - the forever king.
I get why people don't bother replacing the default allocator from musl all the time (it's there, convenient). But in an application whose purpose is to be FAST, I find it weird they haven't bothered replacing it with another more performant one.
mallocng is bad at dealing with contention during multithreading. I've had applications that usually were I/O bound suddenly become "malloc" bound when building with musl in multithreaded scenarios (and only just 8 threads). Switching to mimalloc improved performance by 20x, very close to what glibc offers by default, and just a bit under a glibc + mimalloc configuration.
I get that there's a real issue there and it's interesting (to some) to address it, but it should have never surfaced this way in the first place.