Yes. The Berger paper is very helpful. I also found some measurements of L1 cache misses (which are a good approximation to overall overhead) in a size-fitting allocator.
The original impetus for my question was the astonishing overhead of reference counting. But my surprise was misplaced. The right question is the *relative* overhead of RC when compared to malloc/free. Surprisingly, they are very close. Jonathan
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