[markus_zhang]

Interesting. Is there a book that focuses on evolution of allocators so we can follow along and code allocators of different difficulties?

[samwho]

Good question! I’m not aware of one, but I also haven’t looked.

Most of the research for this post was done by reading papers for various malloc implementations (phkmalloc, dlmalloc, tcmalloc, mimalloc) and reading their source code.

[markus_zhang]

Thanks! I'll perhaps find older versions of those functions to study.