This library is an implementation of Maged Michael's algorithms as presented in
his 2004 PLDI paper, "Scalable Lock-Free Dynamic Memory Allocation".

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Implementation contributors
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	Scott Schneider, [email protected]
	Christos Antonopoulos, [email protected]
	Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, [email protected]

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Copyright & License
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Copyright (C) 2007  Scott Schneider, Christos Antonopoulos 

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA

The full license can be found at:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html

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Notes
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	- We have tried to faithfully implement Michael's allocator as he 
	  described it in his PLDI 2004 paper. However, our implementation has 
	  no page manager and performs no superblock caching. Our experiments 
	  show that these two features will significantly impact performance on
	  some applications.