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Memory Allocator Benchmarks

Problem Statement

Build several different memory allocators

Proposed Exercise

tbd

Proposed Evaluation

Key Resources

• [1] tbd

Additional Resources

• [2]Doug Lea's article on allocators
• [3]DieHard (A look at allocators impact on security)
• [4]jemalloc
• Some interseting discussion on arenas, small vs large allocaitons, how false sharing effects multi-threaded applications(can pad by cacheline size to try to mitigate),