From: "Aleksey Kondratyev" <akondra AT no-spam-mv DOT ru>
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Subject: Re: free()
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 20:26:56 +0400
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>> I suggest to choose a bad (but simple) heap manager, e.g. from Borland
>> C++ RTL :-).
>
>Why should we chose a bad malloc?  Why not chose a good one?

There is no reason to choose a bad malloc for real work but Borland's
implementation seems to be rather simple and suitable as a sample
of a heap manager implementaion. I suggested to look at a simple
heap sources in order to understand it's principles.
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