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

Probably a late response to your question , but

why to do mallocs if you have performance hick ups ?

Better way would be to do a malloc of a big memory window at the initialization and then come up with a light weight Memory manager that would lease out the memory chunks at run time.

This avoids any possibility of system calls if your heap expansion.