What's a Memory Allocator Anyway? - Benjamin Feng
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a quick, clear overview of allocators and arenas that also shows how Zig approaches allocation.
What it is
A Zig SHOWTIME talk by Benjamin Feng on what a memory allocator is, followed by an interview. It covers allocation strategies and different allocator types in Zig.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2020 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Recommends snicker7 · 2020-10 · on “Custom Allocators Demystified”
Would recommend watching the "What's a Memory Allocator, Anyway?" talk from Zig contributor Benjamin Feng: [this video]
Recommends Rendello · 2021-02 · on “The effect of switching to TCMalloc on RocksDB memory use”
It's interesting that I saw this post minutes after watching the talk "What's a Memory Allocator Anyway?" by Benjamin Feng. It's ostensibly about Zig's allocation schemes, but it's more of a general overview of the varied (single-thread) allocation strategies in use today. It made me really want to try out arena allocators It's a quick watch at 1.5x speed, the last third is an interview. 1. [this video]
Recommends kristoff_it · 2021-03 · on “Drop millions of allocations by using a linked list (2015)”
For an overview of how Zig does this and at the same time a nice overview on different types of allocators: What's a Memory Allocator Anyway? by Benjamin Feng [this video]