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SmartHeap Update Link / Bad Link? 
SmartHeap is a fast (3X-100X faster than compiler-supplied libraries), portable (DOS, Windows 16/32, OS/2, Macintosh, UNIX), reliable, ANSI-compliant malloc/operator new library. SmartHeap supports multiple memory pools, includes a fixed-size allocator, and is thread-safe. SmartHeap also includes comprehensive memory debugging APIs to detect leakage, overwrites, double-frees, wild pointers, out of memory, references to previously freed memory, and other memory errors.
Submitted Jan 09, 1999
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The Memory Management Reference Update Link / Bad Link? 
Welcome to The Memory Management Reference -- a resource for programmers and computer scientists interested in memory management and garbage collection. These pages collect some of the best knowledge in the field. Harlequin has many years of experience in the advanced memory management techniques needed by Lisp, Dylan, ML, and the PostScript® language. Many people from Harlequin and elsewhere have contributed. We encourage you not only to use this resource, but to improve it by sending us feedback and submitting new material for consideration. For an introduction, see the Beginner's Guide.
Submitted Jul 11, 1999
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A Memory Allocator Update Link / Bad Link? 
Memory allocators form interesting case studies in the engineering of infrastructure software. I started writing one in 1987, and have maintained and evolved it (with the help of many volunteer contributors) ever since. This allocator provides implementations of the the standard C routines malloc(), free(), and realloc(), as well as a few auxiliary utility routines. The allocator has never been given a specific name. Most people just call it Doug Lea's Malloc, or dlmalloc for short.
Submitted Nov 29, 1998
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ESP -Effective C++ Memory Allocation Update Link / Bad Link? 
Using several features of the language, the author presents a framework for resource allocation which is temporally deterministic, provides for callback, provides memory pools, and can provide for deadlock prevention. The article contains examples that will help to programmer to use that technique efficiently.
Submitted Nov 21, 1999
Updated Dec 03, 1999
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[FREESW]A garbage collector for C and C++ Update Link / Bad Link? 
The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector can be used as a garbage collecting replacement for C malloc or C++ new. It is also used by a number of programming language implementations that use C as intermediate code. Alternatively, it may be used as a leak detector for C or C++ programs, though that is not its primary goal.
Submitted Oct 23, 1997
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Fortify Update Link / Bad Link? 
Fortify is a powerful C++ debugging aid. It detects and pinpoints memory related bugs. It supports alloc/calloc/realloc/strdup/free and new/delete. It traps memory leaks, writes beyond and before memory blocks, writes to freed memory, free twice, freeing memory never allocated, and removes all randomness from reading uninitialized or free memory.
Submitted Apr 18, 1998
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Embedded system programming Update Link / Bad Link? 
This article contains some tricks to make nonvolatile data really tough to lose, even if someone pulls the plug on your system at exactly the wrong time.
Submitted Nov 21, 1999
Updated Dec 03, 1999
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Dynamic memory allocator implementations in Linux system libraries Update Link / Bad Link? 
Memory layout in the Linux/GNU libc implementation. Performance results of popular malloc implementations, both with random and real-world allocation patterns. Special features of the Linux/GNU libc implementation. malloc in multi-threaded applications - the 'ptmalloc' implementation from GNU libc-2.x.
Submitted Nov 29, 1998
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Dmalloc - Debug Malloc Home Page Update Link / Bad Link? 
The debug memory allocation or dmalloc library has been designed as a drop-in replacement for the system's malloc, realloc, calloc, free and other memory management routines while providing powerful debugging facilities configurable at runtime. These facilities include such things as memory-leak tracking, fence-post write detection, file/line number reporting, and general logging of statistics.
Submitted Jul 01, 1999
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NewCode MTS Update Link / Bad Link? 
MTS provides an order of magnitude improvement over system supplied libraries under Windows and Unix and is 2-5 times faster than the GNU GPL Hoard memory manager. Memory management is only one component of a system's dynamic performance, however, it can quickly become the dominant one. While a typical program spends no more than 5-40% of its runtime in memory management related functions, an SMP program, in its memory management functions, can easily experience dramatic drops in CPU utilization rates due to the heavy lock contention introduced by a non scalable heap design. MTS usually leads to an overall application performance improvement of 30-50% and gains of between 800-1200% are common.
Submitted Jan 16, 2006 by Zeev Mehler
Updated Jan 17, 2006
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BTI STL Compatible Allocator Update Link / Bad Link? 
BTI offers a replacement thread-safe STL allocator that is suitable for long-running threaded applications, such as daemons. It supports deallocation, including threads that did not originally allocate the memory. The allocator also supports memory clearing on deallocation, which prevents your data from being stored in unused RAM and potentially consumed by other applications.
Submitted Aug 18, 2003
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mpatrol Update Link / Bad Link? 
A link library that attempts to diagnose run-time errors that are caused by the wrong use of dynamically allocated memory. Along with providing a comprehensive and configurable log of all dynamic memory operations that occurred during the lifetime of a program, the mpatrol library performs extensive checking to detect any misuse of dynamically allocated memory. All of this functionality can be integrated into existing code through the inclusion of a single header file at compile-time. All logging and tracing output from the mpatrol library is sent to a separate log file in order to keep its diagnostics separate from any that the program being tested might generate. A wide variety of library settings can also be changed at run-time via an environment variable, thus removing the need to recompile or relink in order to change the library's behaviour.
Submitted Aug 31, 2000
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Electric Fence Update Link / Bad Link? 
Electric Fence is a different kind of malloc() debugger. It uses the virtual memory hardware of your system to detect when software overruns the boundaries of a malloc() buffer. It will also detect any accesses of memory that has been released by free().
Submitted Nov 21, 1999
Updated Dec 26, 1999
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CVM Update Link / Bad Link? 
The Coherent Virtual Machine is a distributed shared memory (DSM) system. A very early release of the software is available (4/97) although this is an ongoing project. The goals of CVM include: multiple protocol support with the initial configuration file providing four memory models, i.e. single- and multiple-writer versions of lazy release consistency, sequential consistency, and eager release consistency; extensibility in that the source will be freely available and the modules are written in C++; multi-threading support which will allow overlap of computation and communication through context switching; and fault tolerance sufficient to allow the system to recover from at least one node failure at a time.
Submitted Jan 09, 2000
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Split-C Update Link / Bad Link? 
Split-C is a parallel extension of the C programming language that supports efficient access to a global address space on current distributed memory multiprocessors. It retains the "small language" character of C and supports careful engineering and optimization of programs by providing a simple, predictable cost model. From this site you can download the Split-C distribution and all available documentation for Split-C.
Submitted Dec 19, 1999
Updated Dec 26, 1999
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GC FAQ -- draft Update Link / Bad Link? 
Rather than using malloc and free to obtain and reclaim memory, it is possible to link in a garbage collector and allow it to reclaim unused memory automatically. This usually even works if malloc is replaced with the garbage collector's allocator and free is replaced with a do-nothing subroutine. This approach has worked with the X11 library, for instance. The file is currently broken up into three parts, corresponding roughly to general stuff, techniques and algorithms, language interfaces to GC (garbage collector), and more difficult topics.
Submitted Nov 21, 1999
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OOPS Group Publications Update Link / Bad Link? 
This is the papers page for the OOPS Research Group of the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
Submitted Jul 11, 1999
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