Glibc Now Enabling 2MB THP On AArch64 By Default For Better Performance

Posted by bob on Dec 10, 2025 9:42 PM EDT
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The GNU C Library's malloc implementation is now enabling 2MB Transparent Huge Pages (THP) by default for AArch64 Linux. This is being done in the name of better performance -- a healthy 6.25% performance improvement is noted for SPEC with this change...

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