TCmalloc全称是Thread-Caching malloc,作者宣称tcmalloc相对于glibc2.3 malloc(aka ptmalloc2)有6倍的性能提高,tcmalloc的常用场景是用于加速MySQL,不过据Wikipedia的hacker Domas Mituzas说,tcmalloc不仅仅对MySQL起作用,对squid也同样起作用.
http://hi.baidu.com/hongtao_lee/blog/item/9a426a77ac67621fb151b92f.html
http://www.uuki.com/blog/index.php?2007/11/15/188-ubuntu-704-x86-64-mysql-tcmalloc