O(n^2) is bad - can it be fixed?

[Greg Ewing]

Helen Dawson wrote:
> 
> Address
> space will be allocated to seven or eight heaps, instead of 500. Those
> heaps will be available for allocations of any size up to 128 Mbytes or so

If allocating one of these heaps is just an allocation of
address space - without any actual memory being allocated
within the heap until needed - then why doesn't the C
library just allocate one great big heap at the outset?

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