> On Mar 13, 2017, at 1:27 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Satish Balay <[email protected]> writes: >> stash the metadata for each allocation (and pointers for corresponding >> free) in a hash table for all mallocs that we need to track? [this >> avoids the wasted 'space' in each alloc.] > > Sure, but this is just duplicating an implementation of malloc.
No it isn't. It is a very thin wrapper around multiple current mallocs.
