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Date:      Wed, 13 Mar 1996 20:25:05 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        erich@lodgenet.com, brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: new malloc/libc...
Message-ID:  <199603131925.UAA23198@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <22360.826734831@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Mar 13, 96 04:33:32 pm

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> The malloc in 2.1 doesn't do >anything< to conserve memory, a fact than

Not only that, it actually tends to allocate a full page for every
small block (from ~ upwards) that you malloc(), and this just to hold a
32-bit value.

	Luigi
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email: luigi@iet.unipi.it       Universita' di Pisa
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