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mimalloc. Has anyone given Microsoft allocator (MIT license) a try?

It appears to benchmark better than even jemalloc and others.

https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc#Performance

mimalloc is briefly mentioned in my article, and I was surprised that it worked on the mac for swapping itself in. I found the performance of it to be roughly the same as jemalloc when I measured

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