Aspects
Malloc
The malloc function performs dynamic memory allocation in C and is part of the standard library
Memset
Memset is a C standard library function that sets the first N bytes of the block of memory to the specified value (interpreted as an unsigned char)
Others
| Quality | Example |
|---|---|
| Greater |
"It requests memory from the os kernel but the request is not satisfied until the memory is written to with memset . this allows for greater efficiency in the system s memory management but it can result in misleading malloc behaviour" from question "Strange iOS memory allocation behavior" |