LEDA's Memory management

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From: P. Mantecon
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:06

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As we all know, LEDA includes the macro  LEDA_MEMORY(type)  to provide
an efficient memory management  schema.  Basically it allocates memory
in chunks of 2^13 -4 bytes and then slices every chunk in cells of the
appropriate size.

I can  understand  the size of the basic chunk to be a power of 2, but
what  puzzles me is that -4 bytes, so my  question  is the  following:
why the chunk size is precisely 2^13-4 instead of being just 2^13?

Ideas, anyone?

		Patricia
		
P.S. Source code appears in _memory.c & memory.h

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