From: mobygamer@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 4:27:54 PM UTC-6, Gene Buckle wrote:   
   > Is it likely that their heap manager is more efficient or faster?   
      
   I've looked at the code for both, and they seem to have roughly the same   
   runtime.   
      
   > What version of Turbo Pascal are you referencing?   
      
   7.0, although the heap manager is the same as when it was changed in 6.0.   
      
   I've come to the conclusion that the reason for the change was likely the need   
   for more granular allocation.  5.5 introduced objects, which dramatically   
   increased the load on the heap manager, so in 6.0 they cut the slack/waste   
   down to 8 bytes from 16.     
   It is possible to create more granular heap management, but not without   
   drastically increasing the overhead (both time and storage) which eliminates   
   the gains you'd get.  So the TP 6.0+ heap manager represents the sweet spot of   
   complexity, storage    
   efficiency, and flexibility.   
      
   The whole thing came up when I was looking into ways to create more   
   size-optimized code and realized there was a lot of duplication of effort   
   along the way.  If I really need size, I'll code in assembler :)   
      
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