What I was trying to convey is that if you say "I'll just implement a better freelist" you're really just fooling yourself. What you are doing is re-implementi

What I was trying to convey is that if you say "I'll just implement a better freelist" you're really just fooling yourself. What you are doing is re-implementing most of malloc on top of malloc, poorly. If would have been better if they had gone whole-hog with a malloc library and built it from the ground up for their specific purposes instead of half-assed "freelist speedhacks."