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From: phorgan@cup.portal.com (Patrick John Horgan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A REAL fork() function (was Re: SKsh weirdness)
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Date: 2 Mar 90 03:45:53 GMT
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I suspect that malloc is faster than AllocMem because c is managing
it's own heap it AllocMem'd earlier.  Of course malloc has to manage
it's heap just the same as the Exec has to manage the Amiga's.  
A typical c sort of heap management is something that's been studied
extensively in the universities, and you can find references to tell
you optimum ways of doing it.  Another point is that the Amiga has to
worry about the (slightly) greater overhead of the memory type you are
requesting.

Patrick Horgan                       phorgan@cup.portal.com