The impact of memory allocators on performance in Rust

Structure

• Allocators implementing the unstable Allocator API are under src/allocators

• The global allocator implementing GlobalAlloc are under src/global_alloc

• benchmarks are under benches

Running the benchmarks locally

To use the allocator_api feature, you will need the nightly toolchain.

Install cargo-criterion:

cargo install cargo-criterion

Run the benchmarks:

cargo criterion