Top 3 C memory-allocator Projects

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

isoalloc

3 351 7.9 C

A general purpose memory allocator that implements an isolation security strategy to mitigate memory safety issues while maintaining good performance
InfluxDB

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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!

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).