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In-Reply-To: <199704041027.CAA10928@root.com> from "David Greenman" at Apr 4, 97 02:27:01 am
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> >	Of course, the same idea cn be applied adding a MRU policy to the
> >allocation routine.
> 
>    Both Poul-Henning's and the FreeBSD kernel's malloc allocate and insert
> chunks at the head of the free queue - thus they already are LIFO.

I assume this is for things with zero locality of reference (ie: no
second chancing, etc.)?


					Regards,
					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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