Introduction

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lrmalloc is an efficient, lock-free malloc(3) implementation.

It is derived from Michael's lock-free allocator, improved with modern memory allocator features such as thread caches and allocator/user memory segregation.

lrmalloc's philosophy is to provide fast synchronization-free allocations as much sa possible through the use of thread caches, and only use lock-free operations to fill and empty thread caches.

Usage

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To compile, just download this repository and run

make

If successfully compiled, you can link lrmalloc with your application at compile time with

-llrmalloc

or you can dynamically link it with your application by using LD_PRELOAD (if your application was not statically linked with another memory allocator).

LD_PRELOAD=lrmalloc.so ./your_application

Copyright

License: MIT

Read file COPYING.