> Btw, even if you have a GC, no known GC is lock-free (much less wait-free) There are lots of lock-free memory allocators for C (and C++). They're not at all

> Btw, even if you have a GC, no known GC is lock-free (much less wait-free) There are lots of lock-free memory allocators for C (and C++). They're not at all hard to write, I've written them myself.