Nov 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM EST
Show HN: I wrote a minimal memory allocator in C
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Memory Allocation
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A fun toy memory allocator (not thread safe, that's a future TODO). I also wanted to explain how I approached it, so I also wrote a tutorial blog post (~20 minute read) covering the code which you can find the link to in the README.
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