This brought back memories from college, when I tried to write my own C memory allocator. It was decidedly simple and extremely inefficient (pretty sure it used

This brought back memories from college, when I tried to write my own C memory allocator. It was decidedly simple and extremely inefficient (pretty sure it used linked lists...), but after much hacking I did eventually get it to work with some small CLI programs using the LD_PRELOAD trick... but when I tried launching Gimp, the inefficiency quickly became apparent. I think eventually the splash screen did come up, but I never gave it enough time fully to start! My implementation used brk()/sbrk() exclusively, but I thought about re-implementing with mmap(). Hell, maybe I can try to write an allocator in Rust and expose a C-compatible interface.