%0 Generic %1 powers2019compacting %A Powers, Bobby %A Tench, David %A Berger, Emery D. %A McGregor, Andrew %D 2019 %K 2019 arxiv c c++ memory paper programming %T Mesh: Compacting Memory Management for C/C++ Applications %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04738 %X Programs written in C/C++ can suffer from serious memory fragmentation, leading to low utilization of memory, degraded performance, and application failure due to memory exhaustion. This paper introduces Mesh, a plug-in replacement for malloc that, for the first time, eliminates fragmentation in unmodified C/C++ applications. Mesh combines novel randomized algorithms with widely-supported virtual memory operations to provably reduce fragmentation, breaking the classical Robson bounds with high probability. Mesh generally matches the runtime performance of state-of-the-art memory allocators while reducing memory consumption; in particular, it reduces the memory of consumption of Firefox by 16% and Redis by 39%.

@misc{powers2019compacting, abstract = {Programs written in C/C++ can suffer from serious memory fragmentation, leading to low utilization of memory, degraded performance, and application failure due to memory exhaustion. This paper introduces Mesh, a plug-in replacement for malloc that, for the first time, eliminates fragmentation in unmodified C/C++ applications. Mesh combines novel randomized algorithms with widely-supported virtual memory operations to provably reduce fragmentation, breaking the classical Robson bounds with high probability. Mesh generally matches the runtime performance of state-of-the-art memory allocators while reducing memory consumption; in particular, it reduces the memory of consumption of Firefox by 16% and Redis by 39%.}, added-at = {2019-02-18T15:08:08.000+0100}, author = {Powers, Bobby and Tench, David and Berger, Emery D. and McGregor, Andrew}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2f5acf18eb6d302c52ab6811f8c6774ce/analyst}, description = {[1902.04738] Mesh: Compacting Memory Management for C/C++ Applications}, interhash = {41433fa16c9e9476508f4579ac899d15}, intrahash = {f5acf18eb6d302c52ab6811f8c6774ce}, keywords = {2019 arxiv c c++ memory paper programming}, note = {cite arxiv:1902.04738}, timestamp = {2019-02-18T15:08:08.000+0100}, title = {Mesh: Compacting Memory Management for C/C++ Applications}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04738}, year = 2019 }