mimalloc (pronounced "me-malloc") is a

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compact general-purpose

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developed by

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with focus on performance characteristics. The library is about 11000

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and works as a drop-in replacement for

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of the C standard library and requires no additional code changes. mimalloc was initially developed for the run-time systems of the Lean and Koka languages. Notable design aspects include free list sharding, eager page reset, first-class heaps. It can co-exist with other memory allocators linked to the same program. mimalloc is available on

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and *BSD. The source code is licensed under

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and available on

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GitHub - microsoft/mimalloc

Reviewing mimalloc: Part I - Ayende @ Rahien

Reviewing mimalloc: Part II - Ayende @ Rahien
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