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kevin_thibedeau on July 12, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Beating the L1 cache with value speculation (2021)

Memory pools are commonly allocated in a contiguous block and sliced into nodes placed onto a free list. They will be sequential until the pattern of allocations mixes them up.

kazinator on July 12, 2024 [–]

Garbage collection is good at consolidating swaths of adjacent free objects into ordered allocation.

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