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the design / implementation is fairly complete now

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## Basic design
The current design is very simple and will become a bit more sophisticated as
the basic features are completed and the implementation is hardened and
optimized. The allocator is exclusive to 64-bit platforms in order to take full
advantage of the abundant address space without being constrained by needing to
keep the design compatible with 32-bit.
The core design of the allocator is very simple / minimalist. The allocator is
exclusive to 64-bit platforms in order to take full advantage of the abundant
address space without being constrained by needing to keep the design
compatible with 32-bit.
Small allocations are always located in a large memory region reserved for slab
allocations. It can be determined that an allocation is one of the small size