snmalloc-rs

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snmalloc-rs provides a wrapper for microsoft/snmalloc to make it usable as a global allocator for rust. snmalloc is a research allocator. Its key design features are:

• Memory that is freed by the same thread that allocated it does not require any synchronising operations.
• Freeing memory in a different thread to initially allocated it, does not take any locks and instead uses a novel message passing scheme to return the memory to the original allocator, where it is recycled.
• The allocator uses large ranges of pages to reduce the amount of meta-data required.

Some old benchmark results are available in the snmalloc paper. There are three features defined in this crate: - debug: Enable the Debug mode in snmalloc. - 1mib: Use the 1mib chunk configuration. - cache-friendly: Make the allocator more cache friendly (setting CACHE_FRIENDLY_OFFSET to 64 in building the library).

To use snmalloc-rs add it as a dependency: ```toml

Cargo.toml

[dependencies] snmalloc-rs = "0.2" ```

To set SnMalloc as the global allocator add this to your project: ```rust

[global_allocator]

static ALLOC: snmallocrs::SnMalloc = snmallocrs::SnMalloc; ```

Changelog

0.2.6

• fix macos/freebsd support
• add more ci tests
• mark the mingw problem