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Thanks for the Memory Part I: Allocators

• Erik Aker and Mike Mull • Season 4 • Episode 107

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This week we present the first of two episodes on dynamic memory allocation.  We were going to talk about garbage collection, but realized we should probably discuss allocators first.  Turns out they are complicated, and there are many different strategies.


Dynamic Storage Allocation: A Survey and Critical Review  (Wilson)

Hoard: a scalable memory allocator for multithreaded applications

mimalloc: A new, high-performance, scalable memory allocator for the modern era - Microsoft Research

A Scalable Concurrent malloc(3) Implementation for FreeBSD


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