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In C and C++, it can be very convenient to allocate and de-allocate blocks of memory as and when needed. This is certainly standard practice in both languages and almost unavoidable in C++. However, ...

A critical part of any parallel program is scalable memory allocation, which includes use of new as well as explicit calls to malloc, calloc, or realloc. Options include TBBmalloc (Intel Threading ...

As I explained a few months ago, I think of the C and C++ programming languages as distinct from their accompanying standard libraries. 2 Although the various components in the Standard C++ library ...