7 June 2018 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 21 April 2020

The memory library is developed by Jonathan Müller, a C++ library developer and author of foonathan::blog(). This library provides an new STL-compatible C++ memory allocator called RawAllocator. The RawAllocator is similar to the standard Allocator but is easier to use. The library also provides a BlockAllocator type which can be used for allocating large blocks of memory.

The project includes a variety of implementations, adapters, wrappers, and storage classes, including:

• new allocator
• heap allocator
• malloc allocator
• memory pools
• static allocator
• virtual memory allocator
• make_unique and make_shared replacements which allocate memory using a RawAllocator

We are excited about using this library in our next embedded project and gaining increased control over memory allocations.

Further Reading

For more on the memory library:

• foonathan/memory on GitHub
• Documentation for memory
  • Tutorial