buddy_system_allocator
v0.12.0 GrowingA bare metal allocator that uses buddy system.
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 74d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Trusted by 168 crates
- ✓Permissive license (MIT)
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Deep Insights
150.2K downloads in the last 30 days (5.0K/day), up 50% from the previous period.
168 crates depend on buddy_system_allocator. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.
Despite being 7+ years old, buddy_system_allocator hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 15KB, buddy_system_allocator is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include zenoh-shm, hyperlight-guest-bin, sparreal-kernel, slab_allocator_rs, rslab. When high-quality crates choose buddy_system_allocator, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["alloc", "use_spin"]
