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[jira] [Commented] (ARROW-6292) [C++] Add an option to build with mimalloc

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-6292?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16910745#comment-16910745 ] 

Antoine Pitrou commented on ARROW-6292:
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Opened issue upstream at [https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc/issues/133]

> [C++] Add an option to build with mimalloc
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ARROW-6292
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-6292
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: C++
>            Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
>            Priority: Major
>
> It's a new allocator, Apache-licensed, by Microsoft. It claims very good performance and is cross-platform (works on Windows and Unix).
> https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc/
> There's a detailed set of APIs including aligned allocation and zero-initialized allocation. However, zero-initialized reallocation doesn't seem provided.
> https://microsoft.github.io/mimalloc/group__malloc.html#details



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