That's one reason I point out a few comments above that certain niches will need to take it into account ahead of time. Eg. An a/v application will typically al

That's one reason I point out a few comments above that certain niches will need to take it into account ahead of time. Eg. An a/v application will typically allocate all buffers up front and re-use them frequently rather than return them to the allocator. A lot of server applications will want to keep per-client memory usage low. For general purposes, there's the general purpose allocator.