> This is the kind of stuff that you shouldn't have to reinvent yourself but be able to reuse from a good library. Or the standard library even. Indeed; normal

> This is the kind of stuff that you shouldn't have to reinvent yourself but be able to reuse from a good library. Or the standard library even. Indeed; normally we call it the system allocator. A good system allocator will use per thread or per cpu free-lists so that it doesn't need to do CAS loops for every allocation though. At the very least will use hashed pools to reduce contention.