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14 Malloc(3) in modern Virtual Memory environments.
17 Fri Apr 5 12:50:07 1996
22 Den Andensidste Viking
27 Malloc/free is one of the oldest parts of the C language environment
28 and obviously the world has changed a bit since it was first made.
29 The fact that most UNIX kernels have changed from swap/segment to
30 virtual memory/page based memory management has not been sufficiently
31 reflected in the implementations of the malloc/free API.
33 A new implementation was designed, written, tested and bench-marked
34 with an eye on the workings and performance characteristics of modern
35 Virtual Memory systems.