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		jstimpfle on March 31, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Non-uniform memory access meets the OOM killer I don't think there is no such thing as a "C memory allocation model". There are various ways of requesting memory from the OS. But not requesting anything in advance is going to be very slow in any setting that requires a context switch or virtual memory.

jacquesm on March 31, 2018 [–]

A typical memory manager will scale up the size of the requests to the OS whenever it runs out of space.

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