top | item 19356091 (no title) twtw | 7 years ago Can something be obsolete if it is still extremely widely used?IIRC, Linux and FreeBSD both use a buddy allocator for physical memory, and I'm pretty sure it is used (in addition to other allocators) in jemalloc as well. discuss order hn newest pcwalton|7 years ago I don't think jemalloc uses any buddy allocators. It's a segregated free list allocator, like most C mallocs and tenured generation allocators.
pcwalton|7 years ago I don't think jemalloc uses any buddy allocators. It's a segregated free list allocator, like most C mallocs and tenured generation allocators.
pcwalton|7 years ago