Topics

Here is a list of all topics with brief descriptions:

Basic Allocation	The basic allocation interface
Allocation with Block Sizes	v3: Allocate or free memory while reporting the allocator's block size in bytes
Aligned Allocation	Allocating aligned memory blocks
Typed Macros	Typed allocation macros
Constant size allocation	Inlined definitions for onstant size allocation and freeing
Zero initialized re-allocation	Re-allocation of zero initialized blocks
Heaps	First-class heaps
Heap Introspection	Walk areas and blocks of the heap at runtime
Arenas	Arenas are large memory areas (usually 1GiB+) from which mimalloc allocates memory
Subprocesses	A sub-process contains its own arena's and heaps that are fully separate from the main (sub) process
Extended Functions	Internal functionality
Statistics	Print out allocation statistics
Heap Profiling	v3: Sample allocations using the built-in pprof-compatible profiler or custom profiling hooks
Runtime Options	Set runtime parameters
Thread-local heaps	v3: Thread local heaps
Posix	mi_ prefixed implementations of various Posix, Unix, and C++ allocation functions
C++ wrappers	mi_ prefixed implementations of various C++ allocation functions