Picture Me Coding
Picture Me Coding is a music podcast about software. Each week your hosts Erik Aker and Mike Mull take on topics in the software world and they are sometimes joined by guests from other fields who arrive with their own burning questions about technology.
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Thanks for the Memory Part I: Allocators
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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
