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		int_19h 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jemalloc Postmortem > windows def allocator Which one of them? These days it could mean HeapAlloc, or it could mean malloc from uCRT.

carey 3 months ago [–]

malloc in uCRT just calls HeapAlloc, though? You can see the code in ucrt\heap\malloc_base.cpp if you have the Windows SDK installed.

Programs can opt in to the _segment_ heap in their manifest, but it’s not necessarily any faster.

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