[jeffdavis]

Strange, the page showed up first when I googled "tcmalloc" and the problem was also present in the version that I was using (at least I think it was). My apologies.

Yeah, regarding [2], that was definitely not my idea.

[sghemawat]

Not your fault. We just plain forgot to update the documentation, so the freshest available document is a few years out of date.