Allocators Glossary

Browse 3 allocators terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

3 Allocators Terms

Jemalloc: A general-purpose memory allocator designed to reduce fragmentation and scale well under multithreaded workloads. It is widely used in high-performance systems...
Memory Arena: A region-based memory allocation strategy where all allocations come from a single contiguous block and are freed together in bulk, eliminating per-object free...
Memory Management: The set of techniques a language or runtime uses to allocate, track, and reclaim memory during program execution. Approaches range from manual management (C's...