User: Sanoj, the developer

A talk from the Erlang developers address this

On: Memory Management Technique Speeds Apps By 20%

I saw a talk by the Erlang developers that also said that malloc was the bottleneck in a multicore system, so they wrote their own for Erlang virtual machine. See "Insights" on page 11: http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/188/ErlangUserConference2009-PatrikNyblom.pdf Or watch the talk: http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/ErlangUserConference2009/speakers/PatrikNyblom