Memory Allocation (was Re: binary data files)

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1989May3.201118.10221 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <17252 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>>I get the feeling that some future BSD will have six different malloc
>>library routines. . . .
>It would be too much to ask for one *good* one!  :-) :-(

Most applications that really care about malloc() efficiency have already
given up and implemented their own technique, using malloc() simply as an
sbrk() surrogate.