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To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Subject: Re: growing X server processes 
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 11:44:56 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> Dumb question, 
> 
> If  XFree86 is moving to their on efficient malloc shouldn't we be doing the
> same ? 8)
> 

1. Not if it is tuned to X11 in particular.

2. Not if it isn't better than what we have.

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