The purpose of the malloc tests is to compare various malloc approaches to original.\\
  
Baseline: system malloc  

Original approach: has one free list that is centralized and searched linearly [[VMS.DevelopCodeExplOrigMalloc | Original Malloc]]    
Second approach: has an array of free lists, that is shared among cores. [[VMS.DevelopCodeExplArrayMalloc | Array Malloc]]  
Third approach: distributed version of single free list  
Fourth approach: distributed version of array of free lists

Organization of results:  
    Top_Dir/2_runs_and_data/results_from_runs/VMS/Vpthread/Measure_Malloc/*

The parameters in the tests are:
- machine_name:     ( [willis](willis machine), [Seans](seans machine), [VMS](VMS machine), [Ninas](ninas machine), [Biaos](biaos machine) )
- Malloc algorithm: (single, array, single_distr, array_distr)
- number of allocations per thread 
- number of threads
- chunk size: (fixed small, fixed large, random size)