Stream: platform development

Topic: mimalloc


view this post on Zulip Brian Hicks (Oct 03 2022 at 14:06):

Someone in another space shared mimalloc, which is a "drop-in replacement for memalloc." Could be useful for high-performance platforms? https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc

view this post on Zulip Brendan Hansknecht (Oct 03 2022 at 14:14):

Yep, or tcmalloc

view this post on Zulip Brendan Hansknecht (Oct 03 2022 at 14:14):

Also, the compiler uses mimalloc

view this post on Zulip Brian Hicks (Oct 03 2022 at 14:31):

oh neat, I wondered if it might!

view this post on Zulip Brendan Hansknecht (Oct 03 2022 at 15:02):

yeah, we benchmarked them all on the compiler a while back. None of them made much of a difference, but mimalloc was slightly ahead.

view this post on Zulip Brendan Hansknecht (Oct 03 2022 at 15:03):

#compiler development > allocators


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