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Re:BareMetal OS by AnotherGoodName on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @01:14PM (#42379523)
Fun fact I literally implemented a memory pool since most of the allocs were on the same sized structs and did worse than the os allocator.
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Re:BareMetal OS by vdupras on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @01:23PM (#42379631)
That's possible. Maybe that such OS "unfairly" stacks custom options against its malloc implementation.

But I wouldn't be so sure to claim that such a pool, implemented in assembler on an OS that leaves everything to you, wouldn't outperform the os allocator you refer to. After all, there is fundamentally less information to manage.

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