All About Libpas, Phil's Super Fast Malloc

Date: Jun 02, 2022·Tags: #sysprog

WebKit has enabled a new memory allocator called libpas to replace bmalloc.

Libpas is a fast and memory-efficient memory allocation toolkit capable of supporting many heaps at once, engineered with the hopes that someday it'll be used for comprehensive isoheaping of all malloc/new callsites in C/C++ programs.

All About Libpas, Phil's Super Fast Malloc