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at the risk of making a fool of myself - there are several people far better=
 qualified here, however=E2=80=A6

my memory is that the plan9 linker could be easily rebuilt to use malloc and=
 free in the traditional style, reducing its memory footprint - though makin=
g it much slower.

-Steve