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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
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Subject: Re: Heap manager in C?
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Date: 20 Dec 89 19:43:13 GMT
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In article <258@intek01.UUCP> mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) writes:
<Do you have/know of a heap management system in C that I could recommend
<to him?  I'm aware of the library source available with MS-DOS C compilers,
<but they all seem to contain 80x86 assembly language down at the bottom.

There's one in the classic K+R book.

Most C compilers implement it in assembly for speed. Customers don't care
about portability of runtime library code, they care about size/speed.
I know that a lot of my programs are heavily dependent on efficient
heap management.