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It’s just as “solved” as regular memory allocators are for C/C++ — it’s constantly evolving, with many competing solutions. TBB, tcmalloc, jemalloc, mimalloc, e
by stingraycharles 4y ago
It’s just as “solved” as regular memory allocators are for C/C++ — it’s constantly evolving, with many competing solutions. TBB, tcmalloc, jemalloc, mimalloc, etc etc etc.
Memory management is hard, and in a world where memory sizes keep increasing, new techniques being developed is expected and perfectly normal.
- kaba0 4y agoHell, not even sorting algorithms are “solved”, even though they are more than half a century old.
- TylerE 4y agoTim sort, used in python, V8, Android, and Swift, was invented in this millennium.
- re-thc 4y agoAnd there are yet newer and faster sorting algorithms being implemented.
- vlovich123 4y agoNotably quadsort which if I’m remembering my etymology correctly has pdqsort, fluxsort, and glidesort as descendents