[toxmeister]

Hey, author here - this post/thread completely hit my by surprise, so apols for late reply:

1) ta_free() is only O(n) if block compaction is enabled, else it's O(1), i.e. a simple cons of the freed block addr to the free list (https://github.com/thi-ng/tinyalloc/blob/master/tinyalloc.c#...)

2) there's no hardcoded alignment (it's configurable via TA_ALIGN macro) and I'm confused about your other comment about not aligning the right address in general. that's a wrong observation and i think you misunderstood the diagram in the readme.

3) it's clearly stated in the readme that this is largely meant for memory constrained situations (or where not large numbers of blocks, realloc or multithreading is needed/available) and so it's not meant to be a replacement for dlmalloc / jemalloc caliber allocators etc. i needed something small & lightweight and it did it's job very well in several production projects on the ARM STM32 platform (where I have upto around 8MB managed). I also found it very useful for some ongoing JS/WASM interop projects (i.e. there's JS version here: https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/blob/master/packages/mall...)