Glibc's Per-Thread Cache Is Helping Out Some Benchmarks Written by Michael Larabel in GNU on 6 August 2017 at 08:23 AM EDT. 29 Comments Released this week was the shiny new glibc 2.26 GNU C Library with the notable new feature being the per-thread cache for malloc. In most tests the glibc 2.26 upgrade isn't showing any major benefits, but for at least some there is. In particular, Redis appears to

