This is a security-focused general purpose memory allocator providing the malloc API along with various extensions. It provides substantial hardening against heap corruption vulnerabilities. The ...

Two different thread-safe versions (i.e. safe for concurrent access by different threads of a process) of the malloc() and free() functions are implemented here. Both of the thread-safe malloc and ...

CPU speeds used to be the main bottleneck in applications, but over time, CPUs have gotten faster and faster. Along with the rise of big data, applications’ use of large datasets and consequent memory ...