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