Package: dbestfit - a dynamic memory allocator
Date: March 30, 2005
Version: 3.3
Author: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
I wrote the dmalloc part for small allocation sizes to improve the behavior
of the built-in (first-fit) allocator found in pSOS (around 1996).
I wrote the bmalloc part (best-fit with splay-tree sorting) just for the fun
of it and to see how good malloc() clone I could make. The quality of my
implementation is still left to be judged in real-world tests.
TODO:
* Remove the final not-so-very-nice loop in dmalloc.c that checks for a block
with free fragments (when the list gets longer too much time might be spent
in that loop).
* Add semaphore protection in bmalloc.
* Make a separate application that samples the memory usage of a program
and is capable of replaying it (in order to test properly).
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