have to be calculated once per allocator operation.
Make nil const.
Update various comments.
Remove/avoid division where possible.
For the one division operation that remains in the critical path, add a
switch statement that has a case for each small size class, and do division
with a constant divisor in each case. This allows the compiler to generate
optimized code that does not use hardware division [1].
Obtained from: peter [1]
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