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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 11:20:31 +1100 (EST)
From: Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au>
To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Before and after the cure (was Re: malloc upgrade)
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On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> I'd like to suggest people who don't have memory to burn to upgrade their
> libc.so to use the new malloc. There's simply no comparison when programs
> malloc() small chunks of memory. Note in particular the awful behaviour

I dont suppose this includes a fix for the evil way XFree refuses to 
release memory. (That one is really starting to bother me.)

Anthony