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by Sesse__ 1454 days ago
Just wait until you try to use it from multiple threads at the same time!
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eps 1454 days ago
Not sure what's your usage was exactly, but Heap API works reallly well in this context.

So much so that beating it with a custom allocator is a real challenge.

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Sesse__ 1454 days ago
I had a system that was sped up by 30%+ on Windows by switching from HeapAlloc to jemalloc. Profiling showed that HeapAlloc was largly stuck in a single giant lock. (This was on Windows Server 2016, IIRC.) And that wasn't even that allocation-heavy in the large scale of it; most of memory was done through arena allocations, but a few larger buffers were not.
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