malloc_challenge

• malloc is the malloc challenge. Please read this doc and malloc/malloc.c for more information.
• visualizer/ contains a visualizer of malloc traces.

Instruction

Your task is implement a better malloc logic in malloc.c to improve the speed and memory usage.

How to build & run a benchmark

# clone this repo
git clone https://github.com/hikalium/malloc_challenge.git

# move into malloc dir
cd malloc_challenge
cd malloc

# build
make

# run a benchmark (for score board)
make run

# run a small benchmark for tracing (NOT for score board, just for visualization and debugging purpose)
make run_trace

If the commands above don't work, please make sure the following packages are installed:

# For Debian-based OS
sudo apt install make clang

Alternatively, you can build and run the challenge directly by running:

gcc -Wall -O3 -lm -o malloc_challenge.bin main.c malloc.c simple_malloc.c
./malloc_challenge.bin

Acknowledgement

This work is based on xharaken's malloc_challenge.c. Thank you haraken-san!