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diff --git a/src/malloc/DESIGN b/src/malloc/DESIGN deleted file mode 100644 index 58b0523f..00000000 --- a/src/malloc/DESIGN +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ - - -In principle, this memory allocator is roughly equivalent to Doug -Lea's dlmalloc with fine-grained locking. - - - -malloc: - -Uses a freelist binned by chunk size, with a bitmap to optimize -searching for the smallest non-empty bin which can satisfy an -allocation. If no free chunks are available, it creates a new chunk of -the requested size and attempts to merge it with any existing free -chunk immediately below the newly created chunk. - -Whether the chunk was obtained from a bin or newly created, it's -likely to be larger than the requested allocation. malloc always -finishes its work by passing the new chunk to realloc, which will -split it into two chunks and free the tail portion. - - - |