That's a good point, and I could have worded that better. What I implemented accepts an explicit alignment parameter because it made the allocator easier to explain. A real malloc() only guarantees alignment suitable for any object type (typically alignof(max_align_t)), since it has no idea what the caller will store there.
i found myself mostly reading the summary on the left though.. it was doing most of the heavy lifting. the graph looked nice, but it didn’t really add much to the understanding for me.
really impressive work!!! the depth of research and the way the website presents it are both well executed.
i grew up in erode, a major handloom hub in tamilnadu.. so this hits close to home. research like this helps preserve and better understand regional textile ecosystems that often don’t get enough structured documentation.