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Yes, exactly this. Many large programs have custom allocators for performance and most of them are simple primitives built on top of chunked up pages returned b
by chrisrohlf 12y ago
Yes, exactly this. Many large programs have custom allocators for performance and most of them are simple primitives built on top of chunked up pages returned by mmap/VirtualAlloc. The examples of this are all over. This obsession with shaming the OpenSSL developers for wrapping malloc is approaching unhealthy levels.