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"Compacting the Uncompactable" by Bobby Powers
Strange Loop Conference
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.
Recommended as a great talk on solving fragmentation for C/C++ and runtimes like Ruby and Python without code changes.
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