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[Wolfram Gloger]

Hi,

> Uh what?  Someone crank out his copy of "The Art of Computer
> Programming", I think volume 1.  Best fit is known (analyzed and proven
> and documented decades ago) to be one of the worst strategies for memory
> allocation.  Exactly because it leads to huge fragmentation problems.

Well, quoting http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html:

"As shown by Wilson et al, best-fit schemes (of various kinds and
approximations) tend to produce the least fragmentation on real loads
compared to other general approaches such as first-fit."

See [Wilson 1995] ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/allocsrv.ps for
more details and references.

Regards,
Wolfram.