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Yes, you can for sure do that, e.g.:

# Run 5 times and provide the average/stddev
perf stat -r 5 -i -e minor-faults,major-faults \
env LD_PRELOAD=./mimalloc.so firefox --headless --screenshot /dev/null google.com

03.02.2026 04:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think the ultimate test would be using Chrome or Firefox with WebDriver (for consistency). E.g., opening up GMail or something. Not sure how to bound the measurement variance there though. Can you use smalloc as just a LD_PRELOAD?

03.02.2026 02:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Pope nails diagnosis: chatbots as "hidden architects of emotional states", anthropomorphizing, cognitive atrophy. But prescription is, unfortunately, weak: "dialogue" is wishful thinking when builders build and engagement algos print money. Hard answer: out-build. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

26.01.2026 21:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Very interesting! Thank you

26.01.2026 20:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Interesting! Another relevant axis of comparison would be fragmentation (both internal to allocator - if malloc'ing 33 bytes rounds up to 64, then it is almost 50% wasted; and external - if allocator produces a lot of gaps, then malloc might fail even if sum of allocated objects is meager).

26.01.2026 19:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A CRT monitor showing game Street Fighter II. The text says: "Please enter word 3 on page 7 line 2."

A CRT monitor showing game Street Fighter II. The text says: "Please enter word 3 on page 7 line 2."

Some quick thoughts on IACR - Chrome downloads quite often fail for Advanced Protection Program users, enabling silent failures. But Helios probably wants extra safeguards. e.g., you must open a file in Notepad and say what are the secret words 11, 17, and 35 in some 3-wise independent encoding.

22.11.2025 13:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Absolutely love $DOBO :)

20.03.2025 22:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

To cryptographically prove that I am who I am:

Dogs are the best animals and that is a fact

09.07.2023 00:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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