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Ahh yes. Back at university we had a class called efficient programming where we had to implement a Unix utility and optimize it for speed, meaning cpu cycles.

While aggressively optimizing we replaced malloc in the end with a function we called "cooloc", that traded portability and security for speed. The debug tool here would have been useful.



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