About

This project is a tiny heap allocator library for learning purposes. I primarily wanted to try coming up with a decently efficient allocation algorithm.

I ended up with an allocator that reaches similar speeds as glibc (generally slightly slower, but realloc appears to be faster than glibc, I suspect because glibc makes alignment guarantees that I don't make?). My allocator likely has more metadata overhead though.

Building

gcc main.c -o a.out

Running tests

gcc main.c -o a.out && ./a.out

License

MIT License