Date:	Sun, 11 Aug 1996 11:28:59 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Gurunandan R Bhat <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in>
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: is it true that....
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On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, Gurunandan R Bhat wrote:

> 	i just saw it mentioned that malloc allocs in chunks of powers of 
> 2. for example malloc(1025) will alloc actually 2048. could someone 
> suggest ways to avoid this waste (in case it is true..)

Sure: write your own `malloc'.  The current implementation is optimized  
for speed, not for efficient use of available memory.

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