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Heap Layers: An Extensible Memory Allocation Infrastructure

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2014-03-06 · latest 2026-03-28

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  1. If you have a need for vetted & customizable & extensible allocators, I recommend https://github.com/emeryberger/Heap-Layers In the meantime, I don't see much value from your criticism of this particular project. I don't think this is a…
    comment by throwaway27448 · 2026-03-28 · in A single-file C allocator with explicit heaps and tuning knobs
  2. …B, which frees it). The HeapLayers library is very useful for building portable custom allocators: https://github.com/emeryberger/Heap-Layers . The library includes easily-reusable components (like freelists, size classes, bitmaps, etc.)…
    comment by ccurtsinger · 2014-12-06 · in A quick tutorial on implementing C memory management functions
  3. There is also a framework on github: https://github.com/emeryberger/Heap-Layers
    comment by papaf · 2014-03-06 · in Policy Based Memory Allocation