HBalloc Artifact Status
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Requested Badges
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The authors apply for the following artifact badges:

- Available.
- Functional.
- Reproduced.

Availability Justification
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The artifact includes source code, benchmark programs, build scripts,
configuration files, installation instructions, and a license file. The code is
organized so that the original HBalloc implementation and the NUMA-aware
extension can be inspected and built separately.

Functionality Justification
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The artifact provides a complete build path using `make` and includes scripts
for checking the environment, running quick tests, running full thread-scaling
experiments, running single-socket experiments, and parsing benchmark logs.

A successful quick run verifies the allocator by checking that the expected
number of allocations and frees were executed. The expected output includes
lines such as:

```text
Verified operations = ... allocations + ... frees
Allocation throughput = ... Mops/s
Malloc+free throughput = ... Mops/s
```

Reproduced Justification
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The repository keeps the original allocator in `src/` and the NUMA-aware
extension in `src_numa/`, which makes it possible to compare the two
implementations directly. The benchmark parameters are placed in configuration
files, and the PMEM paths are controlled through environment variables. This
allows other researchers to adapt the artifact to different PMEM mount points,
NUMA topologies, and thread counts.