outsource-heap

This crate provides a mechanism for setting the global allocator for a particular task.

lib.rs:

outsource-heap

This library provides tools for outsourcing your heap allocations to various places, including:

• A local file
• A network drive
• Anything which implements the Store trait, like a Vec<MaybeUninit<u8>>

Generally speaking, using this library is a bad idea. Once the Rust standard library has a stable allocator API this library will (hopefully) be made wholly obsolete.

In the meantime, let's do some cursed nonsense.

Getting Started

This crate provides a global allocator, which is used to intercept all allocations in your program so it can decide where to direct them. Therefore, the following must be placed somewhere in your project:

#[global_allocator]
static ALLOC: outsource_heap::Global = outsource_heap::Global::system();