[ARROW-6292] [C++] Add an option to build with mimalloc

• Type: Wish
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.15.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/22674
• Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
• Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
• Created: 19/Aug/19 20:43
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:46
• Resolved: 10/Sep/19 02:06

Description

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

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5217