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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:50:15 +0100, Malcolm McLean wrote:

> Baby X has bbx_malloc() which is guaranteed never to return NULL ...

Does it actually allocate the (physical) memory?

I wrote a memory-hog app for Android once, and found that allocating large 
amounts of memory space had very little impact on the system. Then when I 
added code to actually write data into those allocated pages, that’s when 
it really started to break into a sweat ...