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Re: In the search of heap enlightenment...


Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se> writes:
>
> But, wait a minute!  Why would you need to treat the 4 word cells
> differently?  Why not use the same mark principle?  Every second bit
> would be constantly zero, but that's no problem, or?
> 

Doh! This is completely correct. Any objections to constraining ncells
to 1 or 2? That way, it only needs an extra freelist for the segments
with ncells = 2, and a new macro to get at 'em. 

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