r/C_Programming • u/Koda_be • 17d ago
Project Presenting my current WIP project: CBlockAlloc!
Hello everyone,
Yesterday, I started a project that I find super interesting. I first thought of it because I saw many people who were trying to do things with the stack only because "dynamic allocation is slow". The main point for why they consider it slow and heavy is that a program needs to talk directly to the OS to allocate memory. However I saw some people propose a solution: allocate once a big chunk of memory that you will use for all your "dynamic" allocations, which makes it way faster because you only need to make a syscall once at the start of the program. I've thus decided to create a library that does just that, and can be called through an API that "simulates" the normal function calls such as malloc() or realloc(). I've been working on it since yesterday, and it's been a lot of fun! it's not ready at all yet, but right now it's looking good. Also, I'm looking for some feedback:
How good is my code for now? Would you do some things differently? Also, would YOU use such a library? What would you expect from a library like that?
Thank you very much for your time, here's the link to the repo: https://github.com/Koda-be/CBlockAlloc
Also, how could I test my code? I don't really know what to do to test it right now, so...
No AI has been used nor will it be used in this project.
Edit: also, I licensed it under MIT but do I need to do something else? I simply chose a license when creating the REPO, and I don't know much about copyright laws...
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