How space-efficient is nedmalloc?
dlmalloc does not fragment the memory space as much as other allocators, but it does have a sixteen or thirty-two byte minimum allocation with an eight or sixteen byte granularity. nedmalloc’s thread cache is a simple two power allocator which does cause bloating for items small enough to enter the thread cache (by default, 8Kb or less) but in general, this wastage across the entire program is small. You can configure nedmalloc to use finer grained bins to quarter the average wastage but this comes at a performance cost. When configured to only permit one memory space per thread, memory bloating is considerably less than that of ptmalloc2.
