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.\" "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42):
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.\" <phk@login.dknet.dk> wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice you
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.\" can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think
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.\" this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return. Poul-Henning Kamp
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.\" $Id$
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.if n .ND
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.TL
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Malloc(3) in modern Virtual Memory environments.
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Revised
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Fri Apr 5 12:50:07 1996
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.AU
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Poul-Henning Kamp
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.AI
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<phk@FreeBSD.org>
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Den Andensidste Viking
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Valbygaardsvej 8
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DK-4200 Slagelse
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Denmark
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.AB
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1997-01-05 12:13:38 +00:00
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Malloc/free is one of the oldest parts of the C language environment
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and obviously the world has changed a bit since it was first made.
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1997-01-05 12:13:38 +00:00
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The fact that most UNIX kernels have changed from swap/segment to
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virtual memory/page based memory management has not been sufficiently
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1996-04-13 08:30:21 +00:00
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reflected in the implementations of the malloc/free API.
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.PP
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A new implementation was designed, written, tested and bench-marked
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with an eye on the workings and performance characteristics of modern
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Virtual Memory systems.
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.AE
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