Philippe Gaultier 11/23/2023

Roll your own memory profiling: it's actually not hard

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This technical article explains how to create a simple, dependency-free memory profiler in C using the pprof text format. It covers tracking allocations, call stacks, memory usage, leaks, and generating flamegraphs, specifically when using a custom allocator like an arena allocator.

Roll your own memory profiling: it's actually not hard

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