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How does it stack up to dlmalloc?

• zik 8y ago
  It's a tiny allocator designed for tiny embedded systems. It's not intended for large desktop machines like dlmalloc() is. dlmalloc() can't run on tiny embedded systems because it has relatively high overhead. This provides a lot less features but has a very small memory footprint. It's really intended for cases where your embedded program mostly allocates memory once on startup and doesn't usually free() much at all.