allocator

Don’t you feel like malloc is really slow? Most probably not, as the malloc implementation shipped on most standard libraries are probably older than me. Still, a fool past of myself thought that I could in 3 moths achieve what glibc achieved in most certainly triple the time. This is the story of how I ended up writing a memory allocator for my end of degree project for university. For the last 5 moths I have been writing a hybrid memory allocator using the SLAB allocator used on most operating system kernels and what the operating system provides in order to accelerate memory allocations. [Read More]