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Re:What is malloc doing, anyway? by incognito124 on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:24PM (#50430413)
mental reminder to finish my history of malloc writeup. It's almost 20 llm-less pages with context and examples. goes through general purpose malloc like dlmalloc, mimalloc, tcmalloc, jemalloc and others, while also mentioning some purpose-specific ones like scudo.
Re:What is malloc doing, anyway? by zbentley on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:18PM (#50433765)
I would enjoy reading that immensely. I hope it’s a “labor of love” big project and not a “this thing has gotten so big I hate it now” big project! Ping me if you want any proofreaders!
Re:What is malloc doing, anyway? by incognito124 on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:33PM (#50433903)
It's a bit of a mix between "but wait there's even more details!" and "life will now suck for the foreseeable future".

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind, but don't get your hopes up