Multithreaded Memory Allocators for C/C++

Question

I currently have heavily multi-threaded server application, and I\'m shopping around for a good multi-threaded memory allocator.

So far I\'m torn between:

Answer 1

I personally prefer and recommend ptmalloc as a multithreaded allocator. Hoard is good, but in the evaluation my team did between Hoard and ptmalloc a few years ago, ptmalloc was better. From what I know, ptmalloc has been around for a number of years and is quite widely used as a multithreaded allocator.

You might find this comparison useful.