I would suggest reading the jemalloc paper [0]. The main improvements compared to phkmalloc are: * improved cache locality * reduced false sharing * use of m

I would suggest reading the jemalloc paper [0]. The main improvements compared to phkmalloc are: * improved cache locality * reduced false sharing * use of multiple arenas for reduced lock contention [O] http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/jemalloc/bsdcan2006/jemalloc.pdf http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/jemalloc/bsdcan2006/jemall...