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0 pointssaagarjha5mo ago0 comments

mmap and sbrk would be very poor implementations of malloc.

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We are talking of wrappers on top of mmap and sbrk. Of course you wouldn't use mmap and sbrk instead of the abstraction. It's really the same as the difference between fread and read.

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0 pointssaagarjha5mo ago0 comments

mmap and sbrk would be very poor implementations of malloc.

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17186274405mo ago

We are talking of wrappers on top of mmap and sbrk. Of course you wouldn't use mmap and sbrk instead of the abstraction. It's really the same as the difference between fread and read.

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