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malloc
- Jun 4, 2025 The Cost Tiers of a Single Allocation Request One allocation call can cost tens of cycles or tens of thousands depending on which tier it stops at: thread cache, shared free list, kernel mapping, or first write. performance engineering
- Jan 14, 2025 malloc, free, and the Conventions That Replace a Type System What the allocator stores around every block, why the ownership rule must be maintained by hand, and which C idioms encode it well enough to survive review. programming languages