Hoard

Hoard is a fast, scalable, and memory-efficient memory allocator that can speed up your applications. It’s much faster than built-in system allocators: as much as 2.5x faster than Linux, 3x faster than Windows, and 7x faster than Mac. No source code changes necessary. Cross-platform: works on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Download Hoard now!

Download

Hoard can be downloaded directly from the Hoard GitHub repository.

Users

Companies using Hoard include Fortune 100 companies like Cisco Systems, high performance analytics companies like TIBCO, and major international companies like SAP, Tata, British Telecom, the Royal Bank of Canada, and Crédit Suisse.

Press

“Hoard dramatically improves program performance through its more efficient use of memory…and low synchronization costs.”

Lin & Snyder - Principles of Parallel Programming (Addison-Wesley)

“…use Emery Berger’s excellent Hoard multiprocessor memory management code… it is very fast on multiprocessor machines.”

John Robbins - Debugging Applications for Microsoft .NET & Microsoft Windows (Microsoft Press)

“To improve memory management performance (with multiple threads), consider an open source alternative such as Hoard…”

Johnson Hart - Windows System Programming (Addison-Wesley)

“… Hoard is especially efficient in multiprocessor environments.”

William von Hagen - The Definitive Guide to GCC

Licensing

Hoard can be used for non-commercial use under the terms of the GNU Public License. It can also be licensed for commercial use; please contact Robert Villwock (bvillwock@otc.utexas.edu) for licensing information.

Technical information

The original Hoard algorithm is described in this technical paper; that version also inspired improvements made to the Mac OS X memory allocator. However, the modern version of Hoard has evolved considerably since its initial release, and today's Hoard is much faster.