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Top 11 C memory-management Projects
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memreduct
Lightweight real-time memory management application to monitor and clean system memory on your computer.
Project mention: Mem Reduct: Monitor and clean system memory on Windows | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-05 -
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bdwgc
The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative C/C++ Garbage Collector (bdwgc, also known as bdw-gc, boehm-gc, libgc)
Project mention: Maxima in the browser using Embedded Common Lisp on WASM | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-28https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/issues/650
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Project mention: Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-18
He is still missing profile guided optimizations (with his testcase), and bolt.
And in some/most cases -Os is faster than -O3
Boehm GC is usually slower than glibc with lots of allocs. MPS would be better, but needs lots of rewriting. https://github.com/Ravenbrook/mps
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isoalloc
A general purpose memory allocator that implements an isolation security strategy to mitigate memory safety issues while maintaining good performance
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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).
C memory-management discussion
C memory-management related posts
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Jank development update – Moving to LLVM IR
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Mem Reduct: Monitor and clean system memory on Windows
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Recently during games my cpu goes to 100% and i barely get 30fps on games that used to run at 60fps easily.
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Very bored
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Index
What are some of the best open-source memory-management projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | memreduct | 6,793 |
| 2 | bdwgc | 3,122 |
| 3 | VulkanMemoryAllocator | 2,779 |
| 4 | zpl | 1,006 |
| 5 | mps | 586 |
| 6 | cone | 532 |
| 7 | isoalloc | 372 |
| 8 | buddy_alloc | 172 |
| 9 | Memory-Allocators | 25 |
| 10 | c | 8 |
| 11 | mini_shell | 0 |
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