Projects sharing features with Heap Allocator

F Prime is a component-based framework designed for the development and deployment of embedded and spaceflight software. It provides a modular architecture that decouples software logic from communication interfaces, allowing developers to define system structures through a domain-specific modeling language. This model-based approach enables automated code generation, ensuring consistency across complex system topologies while maintaining strict interface contracts between software modules. The framework distinguishes itself through its integrated build system and ground data operations suite

Umbrella is a comprehensive ecosystem of TypeScript-based libraries and a mono-repository designed for UI rendering, mathematical frameworks, WebAssembly bridging, and functional data processing. It provides a suite of tools for managing reactive data streams, binary serialization, and specialized memory management. The project includes a reactive component model for generating HTML, SVG, and Canvas elements from nested data structures, as well as a system for integrating JavaScript and WebAssembly through generated bindings. It features a mathematical framework for linear algebra, tensor ope

EASTL is a C++ Standard Template Library implementation consisting of containers, iterators, and algorithms. It provides cross-platform data structures and a template-based algorithm library designed for use in resource-constrained game engine environments. The library focuses on game engine memory management, providing specialized utilities that ensure predictable memory allocation and high-performance access for real-time applications. These containers maintain consistent behavior across different operating systems and hardware platforms. The project covers high-performance C++ development

RT-Thread is an IoT real-time operating system and embedded device kernel. It provides a lightweight execution environment for microcontrollers, combining a real-time kernel with a hardware abstraction layer to manage multi-threaded task scheduling and hardware resource allocation. The project is built as a modular framework that utilizes a package-based ecosystem. This allows for the integration of reusable software libraries and high-level services through a loosely coupled architecture. The system covers real-time task scheduling, resource-constrained memory management, and embedded hardw

HVM2 is a high-performance execution environment for pure functional programs, implemented as a systems-level runtime in Rust. It functions as a massively parallel functional runtime that uses interaction combinators to achieve automatic parallelism across multi-core CPUs and GPUs. The project distinguishes itself by using a graph-rewriting computational model to execute programs via local reduction rules, which eliminates the need for manual locks or atomic operations. It employs beta-optimal reduction and lazy evaluation to optimize higher-order functions and eliminate redundant computation

RIOT is a real-time operating system designed for resource-constrained microcontrollers. It provides a kernel for managing hardware peripherals, memory, and multitasking on embedded devices, featuring a microcontroller hardware abstraction layer to unify hardware access across different chipsets. The system employs a preemptive tickless task scheduler with priority-based execution to maximize energy efficiency in battery-powered hardware. It also includes an embedded security framework consisting of cryptographic APIs and secure transport protocols to facilitate authenticated over-the-air fir

This project is a bare-metal operating system developed for ARM64 architecture. It serves as a low-level implementation of kernel engineering, focusing on the fundamental construction of an OS from the hardware level up. The system is distinguished by its comprehensive approach to ARM64 processor control, featuring a red-black tree task scheduler and a hierarchical page table system for virtual memory management. It implements a sophisticated privilege model that handles transitions between kernel and user modes, ensuring process isolation through address space splitting and exception level m

pwndbg is a GDB plugin and binary analysis framework designed for reverse engineering, exploit development, and low-level program analysis. It extends the core functionality of the debugger to provide advanced memory inspection and automation tools. The project distinguishes itself with specialized capabilities for heap analysis across glibc, jemalloc, and musl, as well as a comprehensive kernel debugging toolkit for inspecting Linux kernel tasks and slab allocators. It includes an integrated ROP gadget searcher for constructing exploit chains and an LLM-powered debugging assistant that provi

ZLinq is a zero-allocation LINQ library and memory-efficient collection toolkit for C#. It provides a high-performance replacement for standard query operations by using value-type enumerators and pooled memory to eliminate heap allocations and reduce garbage collection overhead. The library features a C# source generator that automatically routes standard query method calls to these zero-allocation implementations. It further accelerates data processing through a SIMD accelerated data library, using hardware vectorization for numeric aggregations and bulk operations on primitive arrays and s

Coost is a concurrent network framework and coroutine scheduler designed for building high-performance TCP, HTTP, and RPC services. It provides a set of tools for handling non-blocking IPv4 and IPv6 communication, integrating SSL encryption and a lightweight execution engine that manages concurrent tasks using shared stacks. The project features a specialized JSON RPC implementation for exchanging structured data over encrypted connections and a high-performance logging system. This logging infrastructure supports topic-based routing, frequency filtering, and automated stack trace capture for

Tock is a secure embedded operating system and microcontroller kernel designed to isolate untrusted applications and drivers. It functions as a memory-safe process isolator that uses a combination of hardware memory protection and language-level type safety to execute mutually distrustful applications on bare metal. The system distinguishes itself through a hardware abstraction layer that decouples high-level components from specific microcontroller implementations using standardized traits. It further employs a virtualization layer to allow multiple independent software components to share a

rusty_v8 is a Rust wrapper for the V8 JavaScript engine that allows for the embedding of a JavaScript runtime into native applications. It provides core components for managing engine bindings, memory allocation, sandboxed isolates, and the execution of WebAssembly modules. The project features a native host function bridge to map Rust functions to JavaScript objects and a dedicated memory allocator to manage thread-safe allocation and heap pressure. It includes a system for compiling and executing binary WebAssembly modules within the hosted native environment. The runtime covers capabiliti

Swift System is a low-level library that provides safe, idiomatic abstractions for operating system calls and file path manipulation. It serves as a programming interface wrapping native operating system calls and platform types for reliable desktop and mobile integration. The library enforces strict separation of incompatible string types at compile time by wrapping raw values in domain-specific structures, preventing the mixing of system paths with arbitrary text. It translates raw numeric operating system error codes into strongly typed enumeration cases and manages system handles and file

This project is an educational framework and toolkit designed for developing and testing operating system kernels. It provides a structured environment for implementing fundamental system primitives, including virtual memory management, preemptive process scheduling, and filesystem organization, using Rust and C. The framework is specifically oriented toward RISC-V and x86 architectures, serving as a laboratory for learning how to build core system software from the ground up. The project distinguishes itself by supporting both bare-metal deployment and hardware emulation, allowing developers

This project is a collection of minimal operating systems, bootloaders, and hardware drivers used to demonstrate low-level x86 system programming and hardware interfacing. It serves as a kernel development toolkit and a system programming lab designed for testing architecture concepts and hardware behavior within a system emulator. The repository provides reference implementations for creating bootable disk images and loading kernel stages. It includes guides for implementing protected mode transitions, memory paging, interrupt descriptor tables, and symmetric multiprocessing on x86 hardware.

TinyGo is a specialized compiler and development toolkit designed to bring the Go programming language to resource-constrained microcontrollers and WebAssembly environments. It provides a bare-metal runtime environment that enables high-level code execution without the need for a traditional operating system, utilizing an LLVM-based backend to generate efficient machine instructions. The project distinguishes itself through aggressive optimization techniques tailored for small hardware, including a static memory allocation strategy and whole-program dead code elimination that significantly re

This project is a tutorial for developing a custom bare metal operating system specifically for the Raspberry Pi 4. It provides the guidance and resources necessary to write software that interacts directly with hardware without the use of a pre-existing kernel. The project centers on an ARM64 cross-compilation toolchain and a build pipeline that transforms source code into raw binary images. It utilizes linker scripts to define physical memory addresses and section placements, ensuring the resulting binary loads at the correct hardware entry point. The codebase covers direct hardware interf

rpi4-osdev is a project for bare metal operating system development targeting the Raspberry Pi 4. It focuses on creating a custom operating system that runs directly on the hardware without an underlying kernel or abstraction layer. The project provides a codebase and instructional guide for developing a low-level system from scratch. This process involves transitioning from early boot code to kernel execution on the ARM64 architecture. The technical scope covers embedded system bootstrapping and low-level hardware interfacing. This includes managing memory-mapped I/O, physical address mappi

ArduinoJson is a C++ library for parsing and manipulating JSON data and MessagePack binary streams on microcontrollers with limited memory and processing power. It provides the core primitives necessary for embedded data serialization and parsing, enabling devices to exchange structured data over serial or network interfaces. The library is distinguished by its focus on microcontroller memory management, employing strategies such as pool-based allocation, string deduplication, and non-owning string views to minimize RAM usage. It further optimizes for constrained environments by allowing cons

This project is a technical reference and a collection of internal analysis notes focused on the Go language runtime and compiler. It provides a detailed breakdown of the language internals, covering memory management, garbage collection, and the execution model of the scheduler. The material distinguishes itself by providing deep dives into low-level system details, including a reference for Go assembly instructions, register usage, and system call interfacing. It specifically analyzes the internal implementation of concurrency primitives, such as the goroutine scheduling mechanism, channel

This repository serves as a technical learning platform and study guide focused on low-level system design and distributed systems architecture. It provides educational materials and implementation examples designed to help engineers master the foundational components required to build scalable and reliable backend infrastructure. The project emphasizes the practical application of architectural patterns through the construction of essential software modules. By implementing building blocks such as in-memory caches, event-driven message buses, and rate limiters, users can analyze the internal

LiteX is an FPGA SoC development suite and SoC builder framework used to programmatically design system-on-chips. It provides a hardware description toolchain that uses a scriptable framework to define hardware layouts and automate the generation of hardware description language code. The project distinguishes itself by orchestrating multiple vendor and open-source toolchains to synthesize digital logic and generate deployable bitstreams. It supports multi-language logic integration, allowing disparate hardware description languages to be combined into a single project. The framework covers

FreeRTOS-Kernel is a real-time operating system kernel for microcontrollers. It provides a multitasking environment through a priority-based task scheduler, an embedded memory manager, and an inter-process communication framework to ensure time-critical tasks meet their deadlines. The kernel includes a software timer engine for executing functions at predefined intervals or after set delays. It supports a minimal model of concurrent tasks and lightweight co-routine execution for systems with limited memory resources. The project covers a broad surface of embedded resource management, includi

Mezzano is a self-hosted operating system written entirely in Common Lisp. It employs a language-integrated kernel architecture where both the kernel and user-space applications execute within a single, unified high-level language runtime. The system is designed for both bare-metal environments, booting from physical external media, and as a guest operating system within virtual machine software. It implements symmetric multiprocessing to distribute computational workloads across multiple CPU cores. The environment includes capabilities for automated memory recovery via generational garbage

This project consists of technical instructional guides and a structured computer science curriculum designed to teach the construction of a full computing stack from transistors up to a web browser. It provides a 12-week educational course that covers the fundamental domains of computer architecture and digital logic design. The curriculum is distinguished by its first-principles approach, guiding the learner through the engineering of CPUs, FPGAs, and PCBs using digital logic and hardware description languages. It includes specific syllabi for building a hardware design, a TCP/IP network st

Limine is a multiprotocol operating system bootloader that bridges low-level hardware initialization and system software across legacy BIOS and modern UEFI firmware environments. It executes directly on bare-metal hardware without an underlying operating system kernel or standard C library, parsing storage media and filesystems during the early boot sequence before OS drivers load. The software targets diverse processor architectures including x86, ARM, RISC-V, and LoongArch through discrete target binaries built from shared source code. It reads files directly from FAT and ISO9660 storage f

MicroPython is a lean implementation of Python 3 optimized to run on microcontrollers and other resource-constrained systems. It serves as a cross-platform embedded runtime and hardware abstraction layer, providing a firmware framework that maps high-level software commands to specific microcontroller registers across diverse processor architectures. The project functions as an embedded language interpreter that enables rapid prototyping on hardware through an interactive read-eval-print loop. It supports a wide range of target environments, including ARM, ESP32, STM32, RISC-V, and WebAssembl