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From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: Malloc/free DJGPP code
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:48:11 -0600 (CST)
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One quick comment:  The block overhead moves from 8 bytes per malloc to
32 bytes per malloc.  For lots of small allocations this could be a
problem on small memory machines.  I'd prefer to remove the guardhi 8 bytes
to reduce the overhead to 24 bytes per block, or to move all of the 
information before the block and plan to align on 16-byte boundaries.