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From: token@cip.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Matthias Buelow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: Alternative malloc ?
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Date: 16 Jan 1997 18:49:15 GMT
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
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Daniel Ts'o (dantso@cris.com) wrote:

: 	Can someone recommend an alternative malloc() that is fast (the 
: program does a lot of malloc() calls, it is an interactive interpreted 
: language), and yet does not have this power of two behavior ?

Look at the packages, there were at least two alternative malloc libraries
as I can remember.  [comp.lang.c deleted from header]

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	--token

What are they going to come out with next? ``Microsoft Bubblesort?''
   (Kaz Kylheku in comp.lang.c)