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What's a Memory Allocator Anyway? - Benjamin Feng

A Zig SHOWTIME talk by Benjamin Feng on what a memory allocator is, followed by an interview. It covers allocation strategies and different allocator types in Zig.

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Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a quick, clear overview of allocators and arenas that also shows how Zig approaches allocation.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Zig SHOWTIME
Topic
memory allocators
Format
talk
Level
intro
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2020–2021

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • Would recommend watching the "What's a Memory Allocator, Anyway?" talk from Zig contributor Benjamin Feng: [VIDEO]

    snicker7 on Hacker News · 2020-10
    In Custom Allocators Demystified

  • It's interesting that I saw this post minutes after watching the talk "What's a Memory Allocator Anyway?" by Benjamin Feng. It's ostensibly about Zig's allocation schemes, but it's more of a general overview of the varied (single-thread) allocation strategies in use today. It made me …

    Rendello on Hacker News · 2021-02
    In The effect of switching to TCMalloc on RocksDB memory use

  • For an overview of how Zig does this and at the same time a nice overview on different types of allocators: What's a Memory Allocator Anyway? by Benjamin Feng [VIDEO]

    kristoff_it on Hacker News · 2021-03
    In Drop millions of allocations by using a linked list (2015)

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