Memory Allocators: Table of Contents

18 Oct 2016

It is perhaps a bit late but I am starting to have quite a few posts on the topic of memory allocators and navigation was beginning to be a bit complex.

I thought it would be a good idea to have a central place that links everything together.

All the relevant code for this lives under Gin (code) on GitHub.

Table of Content

• Linear allocators
  • Classic linear allocator
  • Virtual memory aware linear allocator
  • Thread safe linear allocator
• Stack frame allocators
  • Greedy stack allocator
  • Virtual memory aware stack allocator
• Circular allocators
  • Classic circular allocator
  • Circular frame allocator
• Miscellaneous
  • Dealing with being out of memory