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> And glibc malloc has a threshold (128 kB or thereabouts) where it switches to using mmap() Very similar on Windows. In modern CRT, malloc is a thin wrapper o
by Const-me 7y ago
> And glibc malloc has a threshold (128 kB or thereabouts) where it switches to using mmap()
Very similar on Windows. In modern CRT, malloc is a thin wrapper over HeapAlloc WinAPI. That one has a threshold (512kb or 1MB depending on 32- or 64-bit process) where it switches to VirtualAlloc.