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Can something be obsolete if it is still extremely widely used? IIRC, Linux and FreeBSD both use a buddy allocator for physical memory, and I'm pretty sure it
by twtw 8y ago
Can something be obsolete if it is still extremely widely used?
IIRC, Linux and FreeBSD both use a buddy allocator for physical memory, and I'm pretty sure it is used (in addition to other allocators) in jemalloc as well.
- pcwalton 8y agoI don't think jemalloc uses any buddy allocators. It's a segregated free list allocator, like most C mallocs and tenured generation allocators.