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		markus_zhang on May 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Memory Allocation Interesting. Is there a book that focuses on evolution of allocators so we can follow along and code allocators of different difficulties?

samwho on May 22, 2023 [–]

Good question! I’m not aware of one, but I also haven’t looked.

Most of the research for this post was done by reading papers for various malloc implementations (phkmalloc, dlmalloc, tcmalloc, mimalloc) and reading their source code.

markus_zhang on May 23, 2023 | [–]

Thanks! I'll perhaps find older versions of those functions to study.

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