Hoard can dramatically improve the performance of multithreaded programs running on multiprocessors. Hoard has been released under the LGPL, so you can freely distribute code dynamically linked with Hoard. Press Read Sun 's article about Hoard on the Solaris Developer's Connection entitled A Comparison of Memory Allocators in Multiprocessors . A Scalable Memory Allocator for Multithreaded Applications , by Emery D. Berger, Kathryn S. McKinley, Robert D. Blumofe, and Paul R. Wilson. Cambridge, MA, November 2000.
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Tests if the allocator avoids false sharing of heap objects. Multiple threads allocating and freeing same-sized objects. To keep informed about Hoard, subscribe to the Hoard-Announce mailing list . For general Hoard discussion, subscribe to the Hoard mailing list .