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rtfeldman on July 30, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reference count, don't garbage collect

There was a great talk at Strange Loop about a drop-in malloc replacement which compacts.

Apparently it actually led to memory usage improvements in industrial projects like Redis:

https://youtu.be/c1UBJbfR-H0

eru on July 30, 2022 [–]

See https://github.com/plasma-umass/Mesh for the code and a link to the paper.

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