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From: cdold@starfish.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: memory allocation
Message-ID: <708@starfish.Convergent.COM>
Date: 9 Sep 88 17:49:40 GMT
References: <5702@utah-cs.UUCP>
Distribution: comp.lang.c,comp.os.misc
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From article <5702@utah-cs.UUCP>, by u-dmfloy%sunset.utah.edu@utah-cs.UUCP (Daniel M Floyd):
> 
> You might try an allocation scheme similar to a DOS (i.e. MS/PS)
> disk space allocation.
> 
> Divide your memory into convinient chunks. Then refer to those
> chunks in some sort of look up table. Keep a pointer to the first
> used block and the last. Always allocate at the end. The table will
If you are using a Unisys or Convergent system, look at malloc(3x) rather 
than malloc(3c).  It implements a 'convenient chunk' scheme, incredibly
faster, especially if you are paging to swap space.
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