The fastest malloc we've seen; works particularly well with threads and STL. Also: thread-friendly heap-checker, heap-profiler, and cpu-profiler.
Perftools is a collection of a high-performance multi-threaded malloc() implementation, plus some pretty nifty performance analysis tools.
Perftools is distributed under the terms of the BSD License.
For downloads, news, and other information, visit our Project Page.
Note: this is by no means complete documentation, but simply gives you an idea of what the API is like.
No recompilation is necessary to use these tools.
TC Malloc:
gcc [...] -ltcmalloc
Heap Checker:
gcc [...] -o myprogram -ltcmalloc HEAPCHECK=normal ./myprogram
Heap Profiler:
gcc [...] -o myprogram -ltcmalloc HEAPPROFILE=/tmp/netheap ./myprogram
Cpu Profiler:
gcc [...] -o myprogram -lprofiler CPUPROFILE=/tmp/profile ./myprogram
The heap profiler can pop up a window that displays information as a directed graph:
The cpu profiler can produce a weighted call graph:
For downloads, please visit our Downloads Page.
Russ Cox's gperftools-httpd, a simple http server based on thttpd that enables remote profiling via google-perftool's pprof.
Brett Viren's Perftools project at the Brookhaven National Laboratory -- a similar project with the same name as Google's. [docs], [download]
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