A Deep Look at a Memory Allocator
Doug Lea’s allocator, often referred to as dlmalloc, provides implementations of the standard C memory functions malloc(), free(), realloc(), and friends. I need a memory allocator for a personal project and Lea generously put his code in the public domain, so I thought to adapt it to my needs. Note that the latest release in 2023 relicensed it under the “MIT No Attribution” (MIT-0) License, which is supposed to be more palatable than the public domain.