SmartHeap and SmartHeap MC
SmartHeap is a fast (3X-100X faster than compiler-supplied libraries), portable (Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, IBM-AIX, Dec OSF Tru64, SGI Irix), reliable, ANSI-compliant malloc/operator new library. SmartHeap supports multiple memory pools, includes a fixed-size allocator, and is thread-safe. SmartHeap also includes comprehensive memory debugging APIs to detect leakage, overwrites, double-frees, wild pointers, out of memory, references to previously freed memory, and other memory errors.
In 2011 MicroQuill introduced SmartHeap for Multi-Core, which delivers dramatic performance improvements for heap-intensive multi-threaded apps running on today's multi-core workstations. Available on Windows and Linux. Learn more about the challenges of heap management on multi-core systems.
SmartHeap MC vs. the Windows 7 CRT
As you can see, SmartHeap is almost 5x faster than
the CRT, and the graphs of CPU and memory usage during the
benchmarks is very telling -- Win7/CRT now uses more than one CPU, but is not fully utilizing any of the CPUs and half of the CPUs are at zero, meaning the CRT heap is still stalling CPUs.
We used an 8-way Intel Core i7 with 12GB RAM and Visual Studio 2008. The source code for the test program is here
| Win 7 CRT time: 80 sec CPU utilization 23% |
SmartHeap time: 22 sec CPU utilization 100% |
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Download the SmartHeap Getting Started Guide (pdf)
which shows how easy it is to relink your app to SmartHeap.
- SmartHeap licensing agreement and "non-legalese" version
- Platform and compiler support
- Shipping a server app that runs on multi-CPU boxes? Click here for info on SmartHeap for SMP machines.