At 22:33 11/07/00 -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
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>The only time you may want to do this is if you're doing a special purpose
>allocator like a zone or slab allocator, otherwise it's a pessimization.
That is why it is done (I believe) - memory can be allocated using one
context then freed as a block when the context is no longer used.
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