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Where does the heap allocator reside? Since it's dealing with program heap, which is a portion of a programs virtual address space, I'm assuming it's something separate from the virtual memory manager?

wulfgarpro
– wulfgarpro

2016-06-21 10:12:46 +00:00
Commented Jun 21, 2016 at 10:12
@wulfgarpro On systems with virtual memory heap allocator usually sits on top of the virtual memory manager, getting big chunks from it, and parcelling them out to individual requests for heap memory.

Sergey Kalinichenko
– Sergey Kalinichenko

2016-06-21 10:24:29 +00:00
Commented Jun 21, 2016 at 10:24

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