Scalable memory allocator experiences

Question

I am currently evaluating a few of scalable memory allocators, namely nedmalloc and ptmalloc (both built on top of dlmalloc), as a replacement for default malloc / new becau

Answer 1

I tried to go your path a while ago when faced with a multi-threaded contention and a severe fragmentation problem. After quite abit of testing I concluded that the benefit of these allocators is negligible in most of the interesting cases I had.

The real solution was to pull my own memory manager which was specialized to the tasks I was doing most often.