In this assignment you will build your own implementation of malloc and free. That is, you will need to implement a library that interacts with the operating system to perform heap management on ...

mm_malloc: The mm_malloc routine returns a pointer to an allocated block payload of at least size bytes. The entire allocated block should lie within the heap region and should not overlap with any ...

Memory is required to run programs on your computer. Of course, the program itself needs to be loaded into memory, and it is no exaggeration to say that most of the operations performed by the program ...

Abstract: Speed is important for a malloc implementation because if malloc is not fast enough, application writers are inclined to write their own custom free lists on top of malloc. This can lead to ...