Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 11:02:56 +0300
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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 23:52:48 -0500 (CDT)
>
> 3) A new sbrk() block sizing algorithm.  Later allocated blocks will be 
>    rounded up to a size bigger than 64K.  The maximum amount of potential
>    loss/waste/unavailable memory due to bigger blocks is a maximum of 3% 
>    of the total virtual address pool.  Many fewer memory handles are used
>    (the 256 stored in crt0.S now will take you to 512Mb at smallest 
>    allocations compared to 16Mb before) and allocations are much faster.

Perhaps we could have Hans-Bernhard's changes to record the size of
the memory chunk with each handle as well.  (This is required for the
core-dump support).