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It's great to be able to make memory allocators faster, but it's also wise to consider the possibility that it's the applications that use them which are where the inefficiency is - and ironically it's the applications that do the most unnecessary allocation/deallocation that would benefit the most from a faster memory allocator.

To paraphrase a common adage, the most efficient way to allocate memory is to not do it at all. Probably helps with reducing the chance of use/free bugs too.

parent userbinator 12 years ago

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