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The '''Hoard memory allocator''', or '''Hoard''', is a [[memory allocation|memory allocator]] for [[Linux]], [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]], [[Microsoft Windows]] and other [[operating systems]]. Hoard can improve the performance of [[multithreaded]] applications by providing fast, [[scalable]] [[memory management]] functions ([[malloc]] and [[Free (programming)|free]]). In particular, it reduces contention for the heap (the central data structure used in [[dynamic memory allocation]]) caused when multiple threads allocate or free memory, and avoids the [[false sharing]] that can be introduced by memory allocators. At the same time, Hoard has low [[fragmentation (computer)|fragmentation]]<ref name=Berger2000>{{cite journal/>.

==External links==

* {{cite journal

| id=Berger2000

| author = Berger, E.D.

| coauthors = McKinley, K.S.; Blumofe, R.D.; Wilson, P.R.

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| url = http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=356989.357000

| accessdate = 2008-01-06

}}</ref>.

==External links==

* [http://www.hoard.org/ The Hoard web page].

* [http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery Emery Berger], Hoard's author and a professor at the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]].