You should actually read the technical report: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/06/mimalloc-tr-v1.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/

You should actually read the technical report: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/06/mimalloc-tr-v1.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/0... This has some quite clever and very carefully considered details around concurrency. > in the end this is a very well-explored area and there's basically a single stable point once all common scenarios are considered. I think it's absurd to call allocation a solved problem where there's one known optimal design.