History

Kernel-space allocator

• buddy allocator - A memory allocator that is used in many operating systems. (Per Brinch Hansen, 1970)

• slab allocator - A memory allocator that is used in the Linux kernel. (Jeff Bonwick, 1994)

• jemalloc - A general-purpose memory allocator that is widely used in production systems. (Jason Evans, 2005)

• tcmalloc - A thread-caching memory allocator that is used in Google’s production systems. (Sanjay Ghemawat, 2004)

User-space allocator

• jemalloc - A general-purpose memory allocator that is widely used in production systems. (Jason Evans, 2005)

• tcmalloc - A thread-caching memory allocator that is used in Google’s production systems. (Sanjay Ghemawat, 2004)

• malloc - The standard memory allocator in the C standard library. (Doug Lea, 1979)

• dlmalloc - A memory allocator that is used in many Unix systems. (Doug Lea, 2001)