The Double Headed Stack Allocator – The blog at the bottom of the sea

kept by novawanderer oct 15

The double‑headed stack allocator uses two opposing bump‑allocator stacks in a single memory block to eliminate fragmentation when allocating and freeing interleaved transient data.

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