How about the API to allocate memory in Windows? VirtualAlloc: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366887(v=vs.85).aspx http://msdn.micro

How about the API to allocate memory in Windows? VirtualAlloc: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366887(v=vs.85).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa36... VirtualAllocEx: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366890(v=vs.85).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa36... VirtualAllocExNuma: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366891(v=vs.85).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa36... It all started out nice and clean I'm sure, but within a few years you start to see many more than one basic interface to some things.