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- Time has come to get rid of a slightly modified implementation of WINE's heap, which is a hack based on Windows 95's heap implementation, itself a hack of DOS memory management. It supported 3 out of the 18 possible NT Heap Flags, did not support custom allocation/deallocation routines, and was about 50-80x slower with fragmentation rates up to 500x higher when compared to NT's LFH (WINE is lucky because the advanced NT Heap features are used in kernel-mode usually, not in user-mode, and they are crossing their fingers for this being the same). Several high-end SQL/Database applications would significantly benefit from custom heap features provided by NT. Not to say about removing crappy support for a custom Commit routine and crappy support for User-defined flags and the User-defined value.

- So, the glorious moment for a new heap manager, which is (to remind you) a totally new heap manager, resembling real NT heap manager, based on data structures similar to Windows 2003 and Vista+'s heap structures, supporting advanced heap flags (e.g. useful for debugging), having substantially lower fragmentation rates (and thus speed and reliability), having native support for user-defined flags and user-defined values, also native support for a custom commit routine, which is very important for trunk's win32 subsystem. It also reserves, commits, decommits and frees memory on the fly, unlike existing heap manager which prefers to reserve and commit as much as possible, and doesn't decommit when it's no longer necessary. Not to say about support for per process heaps, with a proper lock, and a further support for a special so-called debug heap allocator (to be implemented in heapdbg.c) which will be useful for finding heap corruptions.

Yeah, I'm not a fun person :D

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