Hoard memory allocator

Hoard memory allocator

The Hoard memory allocator, or Hoard, is a memory allocator for Linux, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and other operating systems. Hoard can improve the performance of multithreaded applications by providing fast, scalable memory management functions (malloc and free). In particular, it reduces contention for the heap (the central data structure used in dynamic memory allocation) caused when multiple threads allocate or free memory, and avoids the false sharing that can be introduced by memory allocators. At the same time, Hoard has low fragmentationcite journal
author = Berger, E.D.
coauthors = McKinley, K.S.; Blumofe, R.D.; Wilson, P.R.
year = 2000
title = Hoard: a scalable memory allocator for multithreaded applications
journal = ACM SIGPLAN Notices
volume = 35
issue = 11
pages = 117-128
url = http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=356989.357000
accessdate = 2008-01-06] .

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* cite journal
id=Berger2000
author = Berger, E.D.
coauthors = McKinley, K.S.; Blumofe, R.D.; Wilson, P.R.
year = 2000
title = Hoard: a scalable memory allocator for multithreaded applications
journal = ACM SIGPLAN Notices
volume = 35
issue = 11
pages = 117–128
url = http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=356989.357000
accessdate = 2008-01-06
doi = 10.1145/356989.357000
* [http://www.hoard.org/ The Hoard web page] .
* [http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery Emery Berger] , Hoard's author and a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.


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