The NetBSD is also a great starting point for people who want to port to weird architectures. It's simple and a little old fashioned, but it's in the sweet spot for most bootstrappable C compilers for memory-constrained devices. This or dmalloc are usually the easiest to get up and running on a device where you can't or don't want to trust the system libraries.
BSDcan paper: http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/jemalloc/bsdcan2006/jemall...; Facebook Engineering post: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/scalable....
The NetBSD version, though probably not the most up to date, is the easiest to understand, being in a single file: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/stdlib/jema....