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What's a Memory Allocator Anyway? - Benjamin Feng

Zig SHOWTIME3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2020-2021
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A Zig SHOWTIME talk by Benjamin Feng on what a memory allocator is, followed by an interview. It covers allocation strategies and different allocator types in Zig.

Recommended as a quick, clear overview of allocators and arenas that also shows how Zig approaches allocation.

C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesSoftware performance & optimization#zig#allocators#arenas#memorymanagement#systemsprogramming

3 comments from Hacker News

@kristoff_it2021 · in “Drop millions of allocations by using a linked list (2015)”

For an overview of how Zig does this and at the same time a nice overview on different types of allocators: What's a Memory Allocator Anyway? by Benjamin Feng ▶ this video

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@Rendello2021 · in “The effect of switching to TCMalloc on RocksDB memory use”

It's interesting that I saw this post minutes after watching the talk "What's a Memory Allocator Anyway?" by Benjamin Feng. It's ostensibly about Zig's allocation schemes, but it's more of a general overview of the varied (single-thread) allocation strategies in use today. It made me really want to try out arena allocators It's a quick watch at 1.5x speed, the last third is an interview. 1. ▶ this video

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@snicker72020 · in “Custom Allocators Demystified”

Would recommend watching the "What's a Memory Allocator, Anyway?" talk from Zig contributor Benjamin Feng: ▶ this video

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