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Memory Pool System

author          Richard Brooksby
confidentiality public
date            2013-06-03
organization    Ravenbrook Limited
readership      anyone
revision        //info.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/index.rst#14
template        rst-project-index

Memory Pool System

The Memory Pool System is a flexible and adaptable memory manager.
Among its many advantages are an incremental garbage collector with
very low pause times, and an extremely robust implementation. It's
both open source and commercially licensed.

Features

  * fast: lock-free inline allocation in just a few instructions
  * responsive: GC with low pause times even when heavily loaded
  * flexible: wide range of pluggable memory pools
  * easy: GC uncooperative programs using conservative collection
  * easy to build: basically cc -c mps.c
  * cooperative: returns memory to the OS (believe it or not, this is
    rare)
  * portable: many platforms, strict ISO C easily ported to others
  * embeddable: can compile down to a 200K freestanding C library
  * robust: high quality software engineering since 1994
  * supported: Ravenbrook commercially support and develop the MPS

Interested?

  * Read the documentation
  * Download the latest release
  * Join the mailing list
  * Fork it on GitHub

More Resources

Master Sources

    Browse the latest source code, designs, and other good stuff.

Versions, Releases, and Issues

    Versions are stable supported branches, and releases are fixed
    builds from versions [RB_1999-05-20]. Issues record defects and
    tasks -- our bug tracker.

For a more detailed overview of the MPS, see "The Memory Pool System:
Thirty person-years of memory management development goes Open
Source" [BB_2002-01-30].

For an introduction to memory management in general, see the
Introduction to Memory Management, which also has links to numerous
other resources.

Any other questions? Worried about licensing? Write to us at
mps-questions@ravenbrook.com. We're friendly.

References

                "The Memory Pool System: Thirty person-years of
                memory management development goes Open Source";
[BB_2002-01-30] Nicholas Barnes, Richard Brooksby; Ravenbrook
                Limited; 2002-01-30; <https://www.ravenbrook.com/
                project/mps/doc/2002-01-30/ismm2002-paper>.

                "Product Quality through Change Management"; Richard
[RB_1999-05-20] Brooksby; Ravenbrook Limited; 1999-05-20; <https://
                www.ravenbrook.com/doc/1999/05/20/pqtcm/>.

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