Top 8 C memory-allocation Projects

bdwgc

14 2,780 9.7 C

The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative C/C++ Garbage Collector (bdwgc, also known as bdw-gc, boehm-gc, libgc)
hardened_malloc

652 1,152 7.9 C

Hardened allocator designed for modern systems. It has integration into Android's Bionic libc and can be used externally with musl and glibc as a dynamic library for use on other Linux-based platforms. It will gain more portability / integration over time.

Project mention: WhatsApp forces Pegasus spyware maker to share its secret code | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-02

WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
zpl

3 960 6.8 C

📐 Pushing the boundaries of simplicity
php-memory-profiler

3 836 6.1 C

Memory profiler for PHP. Helps finding memory leaks in PHP scripts.

Project mention: PHP: memory errors | dev.to | 2023-05-24

use memprof

buddy_alloc

7 117 7.3 C

A single header buddy memory allocator for C & C++

Project mention: buddy memory allocator - project update (2 years) | /r/C_Programming | 2023-06-12

If you need a sub-allocator with predictable performance feel free to give it a try. The code is here and it is licensed under the 0BSD license, making it as lax and as close to public domain as possible. Comments, issues and PRs are always welcomed and appreciated. Thanks!

small

1 98 7.6 C

Specialized memory allocators (by tarantool)
qCUDA

1 87 0.0 C

qCUDA: GPGPU Virtualization at a New API Remoting Method with Para-virtualization
InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
Memory-Allocators

1 22 4.9 C

A set of custom memory allocators (by pavlosdais)

Project mention: Memory Allocators | /r/C_Programming | 2023-08-26

Hey everyone! I recently created some memory allocators as a part of a mini-project. It's primarily made for educational purposes on this topic but if anyone is interested in using them and/or providing feedback here is a link to the repository. Thank you:)

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).