Re:Mimalloc – A compact general-purpose allocator
by yason on Saturday June 22, 2019 @05:03PM
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but in the end this is a very well-explored area
With a lot of interesting new generic allocators that beat the competition hands down popping up in the last 10 years, I'd dare to claim the area is not very well explored. It has indeed been explored a lot but it seems that there's still low-hanging fruit. Every few years someone writes an allocator that makes significant improvements over the previous generation implementations. I love to see such action on "solved problems".
With a lot of interesting new generic allocators that beat the competition hands down popping up in the last 10 years, I'd dare to claim the area is not very well explored. It has indeed been explored a lot but it seems that there's still low-hanging fruit. Every few years someone writes an allocator that makes significant improvements over the previous generation implementations. I love to see such action on "solved problems".