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Subject: sam's memory allocator

In the SP&E paper about sam it's mentioned that sam uses a custom memory
allocator which allocates strings in a garbage-compacted heap. The version
which is released these days uses just malloc() and realloc(). What was
the reason for throwing the custom allocator away?

-Mark.

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Mark H. Wilkinson <mhw@minster.york.ac.uk>  : Research student in user
University of York, England                 : interface management systems