> Reasonable people who’s opinions I respect, have called this hack anything from “brilliant” to “an afront to all morals”. I think it is OK. It's definitely a

> Reasonable people who’s opinions I respect, have called this hack anything from “brilliant” to “an afront to all morals”. I think it is OK. It's definitely a clever hack given the constraints of malloc, but this anecdote made me smile very widely. In addition to multi-core becoming the norm causing it to be less performant than alternatives, I imagine the "sanity checking" aspects of phkmalloc were subsumed by things like ASAN.