Simulation of High-Performance Memory Allocators
Current general-purpose memory allocators do not provide sufficient speed or flexibility for modern highperformance applications. To optimize metrics like performance, memory usage and energy consumption, software engineers often write custom allocators from scratch, which is a difficult and error-prone process. In this paper, we present a flexible and efficient simulator to study Dynamic Memory Managers (DMMs), a composition of one or more memory allocators. This novel approach allows programmers to simulate custom and general DMMs, which can be composed without incurring any additional runtime overhead or additional programming cost. We show that this infrastructure simplifies DMM construction, mainly because the target application does not need to be compiled every time a new DMM must be evaluated. Within a search procedure, the system designer can choose the "best" allocator by simulation for a particular target application. In our evaluation, we show that our scheme will deliver better performance, less memory usage and less energy consumption than single memory allocators.
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Risco-Martin, J. L., Colmenar, J. M., Atienza Alonso, D., Perez, H., & Ignacio, J. (2010). Simulation of High-Performance Memory Allocators. Proceedings of the 13th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD 2010), 275–282. https://doi.org/10.1109/DSD.2010.44
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