Tag
size-classes
- May 25, 2026 Size-Class Segregation and Fit Policy in the Heap Why bucketing free blocks by size turns an unbounded search into a bounded one, how rounding requests up to a class wastes memory, and how fit policy interacts with fragmentation. memory systems
- Dec 15, 2025 Allocator Metadata and the Real Cost of a Small Object What a heap spends on headers, free-list links, alignment padding, and page maps, and how to compute the ratio between bytes requested and bytes the process actually pays for. memory systems