Composing high-performance memory allocators

SIGPLAN Notices (ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages)

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 114-124

  Berger, Emery D ^a   Zorn, Benjamin G ^b   McKinley, Kathryn S ^c  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

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EID: 18844446201     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/381694.378821     Document Type: Article

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