> > Doug Lea's malloc is in the public domain:
> > 
> > http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html
> > 
> > I don't remember whether that's quadsafe code but the first person to
> 
> It is.
> 
> Further digging found this comparison discussing malloc and gc
> implementations:
> 
> http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~zorn/Malloc.html

Whichever GC implementation we choose and/or write should be not just
quadsafe, but threadsafe, too.  Ouch.

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