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+/*
+	PROGRAM
+		malloc(), free(), realloc()
+	AUTHOR
+		Dick Grune, Free University, Amsterdam
+		Modified by Ceriel Jacobs, Free University, Amsterdam,
+		to make it faster
+	VERSION
+		$Header$
+	DESCRIPTION
+	This is an independent rewrite of the malloc/free package; it is
+	fast and efficient.  Free blocks are kept in doubly linked lists,
+	list N holding blocks with sizes between 2**N and 2**(N+1)-1.
+	Consequently neither malloc nor free have to do any searching:
+	the cost of a call of malloc() (or free()) is constant, however
+	many blocks you have got.
+	
+	If you switch on the NON_STANDARD macro (see param.h) every block
+	costs 2 pointers overhead (otherwise it's 4).
+*/
+/*
+	There is an organisational problem here: during devellopment
+	I want the package divided into modules, which implies external
+	names for the communication.  The only external names I want in
+	the finished product are malloc, realloc and free.  This requires
+	some hanky-panky.
+*/