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From: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Malloc (was Re: Another great quote from Mr. Good)
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Date: 20 Aug 88 18:07:09 GMT
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In article <1125@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
>I appreciate the recent wave of comments to the effect that "it doesn't
>make sense to have both allocators in the same system at the same time."
>
>What I believe is missing here is a general understanding of what the
>new Malloc (the one in the upcoming TOS 1.4 release) really does.
[Description of OSPool handling deleted]

Thanks!  That will clear matters up for a lot of people.  Will all that
be documented anywhere, for the benefit of developers who don't have access
to the net?  Someone at Atari should collect all the worthwhile articles
like that and add them to the developers' docs, as there has been quite a
wealth of information here.

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These are my opinions, and in no way reflect those of UCSC, which are wrong.
Steven Grimm		Moderator, comp.{sources,binaries}.atari.st
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