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Why malloc always does more than I asked for? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: malloc, c programming, bump allocator

2.

56,000 lines of DOOM, in a language I made up (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-16 | tags: doom, bet language, geoffrey huntley

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A new register allocator for ZJIT (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-27 | by Aaron Patterson | tags: zjit, register allocator, christian wimmer

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A single-file C allocator with explicit heaps and tuning knobs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-25 | get Memory Management Debugging Tool → | tags: spaces, malloc, linux

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Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-16 | by Wenlei He | get jemalloc Memory Debugger → | tags: jemalloc, meta, linux kernel

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Jemalloc un-abandoned by Meta (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-16 | by Wenlei He | get Jemalloc Memory Allocator → | tags: jemalloc, meta, linux kernel

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Understanding the Go Runtime: The Memory Allocator (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-23 | by Jesús Espino | get Memory Allocator → | tags: go runtime, memory allocator, garbage collector

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Labyrinth Locator (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-13 | get Navigation System → | tags: add labyrinth, labyrinth, labyrinths

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Poking holes into bytecode with peephole optimisations (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-15 | get Peephole Optimizations → | tags: optimisation, peephole, registerallocator

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High-performance header-only container library for C++23 on x86-64 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-06 | get Container Library → | tags: allocator, btree, build

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Context: Odin’s Most Misunderstood Feature (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-15 | get Dark Mode → | tags: allocator, code, context

12.

Why we built Lightpanda in Zig (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-05 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: allocator, build, language

13.

We Built Lightpanda in Zig (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-05 | get Lightpad → | tags: allocator, build, language

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Show HN: I wrote a minimal memory allocator in C (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-23 | get Memory Allocator → | tags: allocator, include, malloc

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Default musl allocator considered harmful to performance (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Google Nest Hub → | tags: allocator, musl, performance

16.

C3 solved memory lifetimes with scopes (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Google Nest → | tags: allocator, input, int

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I was surprised by how simple an allocator is (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Meta Quest → | tags: allocator, chunk, memory

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Jemalloc Postmortem (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Meta Quest → | tags: allocator, development, facebook