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Re:What is malloc doing, anyway? by EPWN3D on Monday November 09, 2026 @10:54AM (#50427262)
I don't think we can get rid of heap memory, but I do think we can get rid of a shared heap.
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Re:What is malloc doing, anyway? by tremon on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:15PM (#50455852)
Isn't a shared heap pretty much the difference between multithreading and multiprocessing? Won't it turn every form of thread synchronization into a remote procedure call?
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