I'm thrilled that we've been able to release a revised version of TCMalloc.
In it's new default mode it holds per virtual CPU caches so that a thread running on a CPU can have contention free allocation and deallocation. This relies on Restartable Sequences - a Linux feature that ensures a region of code either completes without interruption by the OS, or gets restarted if there is an interruption.
The other compelling feature is that it is hugepage aware. It ultimately manages memory in hugepage chunks so that it can pack data onto as few hugepages as possible.
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