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Re:Mimalloc – A compact general-purpose allocator by jasonwatkinspdx on Saturday June 22, 2019 @04:28PM (#20251562)
You should actually read the technical report: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/0...

This has some quite clever and very carefully considered details around concurrency.

> in the end this is a very well-explored area and there's basically a single stable point once all common scenarios are considered.

I think it's absurd to call allocation a solved problem where there's one known optimal design.

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