"Compacting the Uncompactable" by Bobby Powers

Strange Loop ConferenceLength: 40 minutesC, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages

In brief

Bobby Powers presents Mesh, a drop-in malloc replacement that eliminates memory fragmentation in unmodified C/C++ programs by compacting memory. The talk covers how it works despite C's fixed object addresses, and its benefits for programs like Redis.

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