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if you DO want to get performance from changing mallocs, make sure to test them with your own app

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in our humble opinion, overall winner so far (by a nose) is jemalloc.

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We won’t ever get (almost) any virtual memory back, plain and simple

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relocation allows not only to reduce fragmentation, but to eliminate it entirely.

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Programs are not the self-contained, self-reliant, self-sufficient things they once were.

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I highly recommend you log every HTTP request you send and every HTTP response you receive.

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‘unchecked’ std::errors are treated as ‘something which should never ever happen, but in practice MAY occur as a result of potentially-recoverable bug'

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Failing-Fast does NOT mean we should necessarily Fail-Hard(!). In certain (production!) cases, Failing-Fast-AND-Soft IS a substantially better alternative.