The Hoard Scalable Memory Allocator 3.7.1 (Default branch) |
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Wednesday February 20, 2008. 08:43 PM FreshMeat
Hoard is a scalable memory allocator (malloc replacement) for
multithreaded applications. Hoard can dramatically improve your
application's performance on multiprocessor machines. No changes to your
source are necessary; just link it in. Hoard scales linearly up to at
least 14 processors. The supported platforms include Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and
Windows NT/2000/XP/64.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes a serious bug for Windows in thread reclamation. It fixes a small memory leak in thread creation. It substantially increases performance for small objects on 64-bit platforms. It works on 64-bit Windows.
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