mimalloc

History

Kirsten Lee 743e891738 add stl mimalloc wrapper		2020-01-06 16:18:22 -08:00
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CMakeLists.txt	update version to 1.2	2019-11-21 16:10:04 -08:00
main-override-static.c	improved security by encoding NULL values; double free mitigation on by default; more precise free list corruption detection	2019-11-21 15:21:23 -08:00
main-override.c	update test files and overriding	2019-07-23 15:00:13 -07:00
main-override.cpp	remove double_free call	2019-10-28 12:27:32 -07:00
main.c	remove lock code from atomics (as it is unused)	2019-06-24 17:54:41 -07:00
readme.md	update documentation	2019-11-21 16:09:34 -08:00
test-api.c	add stl mimalloc wrapper	2020-01-06 16:18:22 -08:00
test-stress.c	update stress test for more realisitic size distribution	2019-11-20 12:59:26 -08:00

readme.md

Testing allocators is difficult as bugs may only surface after particular allocation patterns. The main approach to testing mimalloc is therefore to have extensive internal invariant checking (see page_is_valid in page.c for example), which is enabled in debug mode with -DMI_DEBUG_FULL=ON. The main testing strategy is then to run mimalloc-bench using full invariant checking to catch any potential problems over a wide range of intensive allocation benchmarks and programs.

However, this does not test well for the entire API surface and this is tested with test-api.c when using make test (from out/debug etc). (This is not complete yet, please add to it.)

The main.c and main-override.c are there to test if building and overriding from a local install works and therefore these build a separate test/CMakeLists.txt.