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From: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
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David Moore writes:

> I've been peering at our allocator and I think it can be made much
> smarter.  And personally I tend to prefer the mmap approach, if it
> can be made faster.

> Thoughts?

Go for it.  You might consider taking a look at the newest GNU malloc
in the latest glibc for ideas.
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