If someone is going to criticize other people's work and dismiss it as nearly useless without even somewhat informing themselves about it, they should expect to be called out on that. You might find my reply offensive, but I found the email that I was replying to extremely offensive and I had to subscribe to this list and figure out how to send a reply to a past email from the archive to defend the value of my work. It wasn't fair or accurate criticisms or comparisons.
Hi Daniel. Further posts from you will require moderator approval.
Personally I'm baffled what made you so upset. From what I can tell Tom didn't even claim harden_malloc is a bad project, just that benchmarks should be redone with Firefox's jemalloc forking in mind and that he doesn't expect benefits from integrating it via LD_PRELOAD for our use case (though to be honest this thread got too wonky for me - not my specialty).
Regardless, contentious technical discussions on this list are fine but personal attacks are not.