malloc() hasn't been a subject of interest to academics in many decades. This knowledge pre-dates the web in some cases. Do a web search for the replacement all

malloc() hasn't been a subject of interest to academics in many decades. This knowledge pre-dates the web in some cases. Do a web search for the replacement allocator used in Firefox. You'll probably find some good discussion there. Plus, every OS, C runtime, and usage pattern is different. YMMV massively depending on everything.