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finer-grained malloc size classes #356

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thestinger opened this Issue Jul 30, 2016 · 0 comments

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thestinger commented Jul 30, 2016

Power of two size classes waste lots of memory due to internal fragmentation (i.e. wasted space from rounding). It's especially bad with canaries since allocations often end up being pushed into the next size class.

@thestinger thestinger added Type: enhancement Component: hardened malloc labels Jul 30, 2016

@thestinger thestinger added the upstream label Oct 16, 2016

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