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Summary: The current OS memory allocator conflates the concepts of allocating address space and allocating memory, which makes the HEAP_ALLOCED() implementation excessively complicated (as the only thing it cares about is address space layout) and slow. Instead, what we want is to allocate a single insanely large contiguous block of address space (to make HEAP_ALLOCED() checks fast), and then commit subportions of that in 1MB blocks as we did before. This is currently behind a flag, USE_LARGE_ADDRESS_SPACE, that is only enabled for certain OSes. Test Plan: validate Reviewers: simonmar, ezyang, austin Subscribers: thomie, carter Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D524 GHC Trac Issues: #9706
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