Mesh: Compacting C and C++ Memory Without Code Changes
CppCon · Talk · YouTube title: CppCon 2019: Emery Berger “Mesh: Automatically Compacting Your C++ Application's Memory”
Why it's here
HN recommends Berger's talks as fascinating and cites Mesh as mind-blowing memory allocator work.
What it covers
Emery Berger's CppCon 2019 talk introducing Mesh, a drop-in malloc replacement that compacts memory in unmodified C and C++ programs. It tackles fragmentation by merging pages without changing pointers.