rpmalloc
snmalloc
| rpmalloc | snmalloc | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 8 | |
| 2,022 | 1,489 | |
| - | 1.2% | |
| 7.9 | 6.3 | |
| 15 days ago | 25 days ago | |
| Python | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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rpmalloc
- Rpmalloc – General Purpose Memory Allocator
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How do applications request for RAM from the CPU?
rpmalloc by Mattias Jansson
snmalloc
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Snmalloc: A Message Passing Allocator
https://github.com/microsoft/snmalloc#snmalloc mentions two biggest motivations as:
> Allocations on one thread are freed by a different thread
I can imagine one use-case for this: a task that is scheduled from and executed by a work-stealing thread-pool can allocate memory in one thread but by design there's no guarantee that the memory will be necessarily freed from that exact thread. Would that be a good use-case for snmalloc?
> Deallocations occur in large batches
This sounds much like a bump allocator use-case but which can do this exact thing by calling a single munmap(addr, len) and unmap multiple allocations all at once.
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Is the JVM a upside or downside to Scala?
Yes, it's very efficient and that's not where the main problem lies. However, small allocations with modern C heap allocators like mimalloc or snmalloc has gotten extremely efficient as well. Would be interesting to see a benchmark comparison with Java's G1 and ZGC.
- Snmalloc 0.6 released, major redesign with security hardening
- Snmalloc: High-performance message passing based allocator
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Maintenance status (jemallocator)
Did you ever benchmark against https://github.com/microsoft/snmalloc ?
What are some alternatives?
mimalloc - mimalloc is a compact general purpose allocator with excellent performance.
jemalloc
jemallocator - Rust allocator using jemalloc as a backend
buddy_alloc - A single header buddy memory allocator for C & C++
Mesh - A memory allocator that automatically reduces the memory footprint of C/C++ applications.
tbb - oneAPI Threading Building Blocks (oneTBB) [Moved to: https://github.com/oneapi-src/oneTBB]
mimalloc_rust - A Rust wrapper over Microsoft's MiMalloc memory allocator
Hoard - The Hoard Memory Allocator: A Fast, Scalable, and Memory-efficient Malloc for Linux, Windows, and Mac.
jemallocator - Rust allocator using jemalloc as a backend
gperftools - Main gperftools repository
o1heap - Constant-complexity deterministic memory allocator (heap) for hard real-time high-integrity embedded systems. There is very little activity because the project is finished and does not require further changes.