I collected some links to interesting and useful links about allocators here https://github.com/rain-1/awesome-allocators https://github.com/rain-1/awesome-allo

I collected some links to interesting and useful links about allocators here https://github.com/rain-1/awesome-allocators https://github.com/rain-1/awesome-allocators I think you would look into bitmap based allocators (which only handles fixed size allocations, but it's very simple) and then (more advanced) binary buddies system to start with. * http://sean.cm/a/tricolor-garbage-collector http://sean.cm/a/tricolor-garbage-collector * http://www.memorymanagement.org/mmref/alloc.html http://www.memorymanagement.org/mmref/alloc.html