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Malloc(3) in modern Virtual Memory environments. Revised Fri Apr 5 12:50:07 1996 .AU Poul-Henning Kamp .AI <phk@FreeBSD.org> Den Andensidste Viking Valbygaardsvej 8 DK-4200 Slagelse Denmark .AB Malloc/free is one of the oldest parts of the C language environment and obviously the world has changed a bit since it was first made. The fact that most UNIX kernels have changed from swap/segment to virtual memory/page based memory management has not been sufficiently reflected in the implementations of the malloc/free API.

A new implementation was designed, written, tested and bench-marked with an eye on the workings and performance characteristics of modern Virtual Memory systems. .AE