I've read some allocator walkthroughs before but I thought that this line stood out:
"to get individual free() working, the allocator needs to remember something about every allocation it handed out. and that’s the moment metadata stops being optional."
That's just a very nice distillation of an important concept.
"to get individual free() working, the allocator needs to remember something about every allocation it handed out. and that’s the moment metadata stops being optional."
That's just a very nice distillation of an important concept.