Systems Using Slab Allocation
- AmigaOS (introduced in 4.0)
- DragonFly BSD (introduced in release 1.0)
- FreeBSD (introduced in 5.0)
- Haiku (introduced in alpha 2)
- HP-UX (introduced in 11i)
- Linux (introduced in kernel 2.2, many popular distributions now choose the SLUB allocation method over SLAB, but it is still available as an option) -- In Linux, slab allocation provides a kind of front-end to the zoned buddy allocator for those sections of the kernel that require more flexible memory allocation than the standard 4KB page size
- NetBSD (introduced in 4.0)
- Solaris (introduced in 2.4)
- The Perl 5 compiler uses a slab allocator for internal memory management
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