Here's what I'll be reading on allocators tonight, any further suggestions (following all the links in comments is part of the deal)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_dynamic_memory_allocation
http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/scalable-...
http://locklessinc.com/benchmarks_allocator.shtml
http://blog.reverberate.org/2009/02/20/one-malloc-to-rule-th...