gperftools tcmalloc - AshokBhat/notes GitHub Wiki

About

• Thread-Caching Malloc
• Part of Google Perf Tools (gperftools)
• https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools - Not updated

FAQs

• Why another malloc?
  • Faster than the Glibc malloc
  • Reduces lock contention for multi-threaded programs
  • Space-efficient representation of small objects

Alternative repo

• https://github.com/google/tcmalloc - A new repo under Google - tcmalloc
• Differs from Google Perf Tools repo

See also

• TCMalloc documentation in gperftools.github.io
• [Difference between gpertools vs google/tcmalloc] (https://github.com/google/tcmalloc/issues/2)