DMD + nedmalloc? last one

[dsimcha]

== Quote from Jarrett Billingsley (jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com)'s article
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Robert
> Clipsham<robert at octarineparrot.com> wrote:
> > Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> >>
> >> Wow, just.. wow.  I can't believe you got it working :D  Thanks so
> >> much; I'm sure other people will find this useful as well!
> >>
> >> At long last, I was able to test it!  And... amazingly, it was 50%
> >> slower than the default malloc/free :\  I even compiled it with
> >> optimization enabled.
> >>
> >> In disbelief, I tried it in my virtualized linux box with GCC as well,
> >> and got a similar result, so it doesn't seem to be DMC's fault..
> >>
> >> Hm.  Maybe it's just supposed to be faster for multithreaded code.
> >
> > Maybe you could try one of the many other malloc replacements? I believe
> > firefox switched to jemalloc, I have no real knowledge of this sort of th
> ing
> > though. A quick google seems to come up with quite a few "fast"
> > replacements, including one from Google.
> >
> I'll give some of them a shot.  Hopefully getting others to compile
> with DMC won't be nearly as much of an adventure :P

Isn't a multithreaded allocator on the agenda at some point for druntime?  If so,
is this considered a high-priority thing that will likely get done soon (IMHO it
should be b/c without it the new threading model will be almost useless due to
poor scalability), or is it a back burner thing?