This project implements a dynamic memory allocator in C. It began as a simple implicit free list allocator based on the example in Chapter 9 of CS:APP (Computer Systems, A Programmer's Perspective) by ...

Two different thread-safe versions (i.e. safe for concurrent access by different threads of a process) of the malloc() and free() functions are implemented here. Both of the thread-safe malloc and ...

Memory is required to run programs on your computer. Of course, the program itself needs to be loaded into memory, and it is no exaggeration to say that most of the operations performed by the program ...

CPU speeds used to be the main bottleneck in applications, but over time, CPUs have gotten faster and faster. Along with the rise of big data, applications’ use of large datasets and consequent memory ...