microsoft / mimalloc

mimalloc is a compact general purpose allocator with excellent performance.

idealvin / coost

A tasteful, minimal C++ base library.

GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs / VulkanMemoryAllocator

Easy to integrate Vulkan memory allocation library

mjansson / rpmalloc

Public domain cross platform lock free thread caching 16-byte aligned memory allocator implemented in C

GrapheneOS / hardened_malloc

Hardened allocator designed for modern systems. It has integration into Android's Bionic libc and can be used externally with musl and glibc as a dynamic library for use on other Linux-based platforms. It will gain more portability/integration over time.

mtrebi / memory-allocators

Custom memory allocators in C++ to improve the performance of dynamic memory allocation

microsoft / snmalloc

Message passing based allocator

plasma-umass / Mesh

A memory allocator that automatically reduces the memory footprint of C/C++ applications.

bloomberg / bde

Basic Development Environment - a set of foundational C++ libraries used at Bloomberg.

dlang / phobos

The standard library of the D programming language

GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs / D3D12MemoryAllocator

Easy to integrate memory allocation library for Direct3D 12

biojppm / rapidyaml

Rapid YAML - a library to parse and emit YAML, and do it fast.

Traverse-Research / gpu-allocator

🦀 GPU memory allocator for Vulkan, DirectX 12 and Metal. Written in pure Rust

LaurieWired / HotPotato

Tier-aware custom allocator using C++ Reflection / Annotations

jarabb-biosfer / fifth-band-coin-flip

Fifth Card Flip 2026: Best Open Source Poker Chip Allocator for Card Game Strategy

zackees / mimalloc-pprof

4th generation Mimalloc: fixes large alloc peak memory, same speed class. Cut large-buffer peak RSS > 50%. Memory purging, pprof heap profiling. Drop-in for C and Rust