Top 3 malloc-library Open-Source Projects

Mesh

6 1,705 3.7 C++

A memory allocator that automatically reduces the memory footprint of C/C++ applications.
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

InfluxDB

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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.
ipc

2 180 9.9 C++

[Start here!] Flow-IPC - Modern C++ toolkit for high-speed inter-process communication (IPC)

Project mention: Show HN: Comprehensive inter-process communication (IPC) toolkit in modern C++ | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-13

Oooh, so close. We’ve got the advertisement/discovery and messaging for sure.
Concretely what it would take to port it to those OS: https://github.com/Flow-IPC/ipc/issues/101
Given a couple weeks to work on it, this thing would be on macOS no problem. With Windows I personally need to understand its FD-passing and native handle concepts first, but I’m guessing it’d be a similar amount of effort in the end.

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).