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heap on demand, and manages acquired memory and distributes it to the process in
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chunks. When \texttt{free} is called, it does not mean that the memory is
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returned to the kernel; it is only returned to the allocator.
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It depends on the allocator implementation whether this memory is returned
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to the kernel.
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\item The \texttt{mmap} area is used for mapping files into memory, i.e. also
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for shared libraries. Some allocators use also this memory internally,
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e.g. in case a process requests larger chunks of memory at once. It is possible

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