Yes I did. My point is the C++ standard library has more information about your allocations than malloc() or free() does so it makes sense for it to attempt to

Yes I did. My point is the C++ standard library has more information about your allocations than malloc() or free() does so it makes sense for it to attempt to do something smarter. Since the 'fine article' didn't really get in to any interesting details, i'll leave it at that.