C dynamic memory allocation refers to performing dynamic memory allocation in the C programming language via a group of functions in the C standard library, namely malloc, realloc, calloc and free.
The C++ programming language includes these functions for backwards compatibility; its use in C++ has been largely superseded by operators new and new.
Many different implementations of the actual memory allocation mechanism, used by malloc, are available. Their performance varies in both execution time and required memory.
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