Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 15:14:09 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
cc: Aleksey Kondratyev <akondra AT mv DOT ru>
Subject: Re: free()
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On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Aleksey Kondratyev wrote:

> I suggest to choose a bad (but simple) heap manager, e.g. from Borland 
> C++ RTL :-).

Why should we chose a bad malloc?  Why not chose a good one?

For DJGPP v2.02, DJ Delorie wrote a new version of malloc, which wastes 
much less memory than the current implementation.  It is very good, based 
on some testing.