Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Marat Radchenko <ma...@slonopotamus.org> 
> wrote:

>> nedalloc was initially added in f0ed82 to fix slowness of standard WinXP
>> memory allocator. Since WinXP is EOLed, this point is no longer valid.
>>
>> The actual reason behind this commit is incompatibility of malloc.c.h
>> with MinGW-W64 headers. Alternative solution implies updating nedalloc
>> to something newer.
>
> Did you measure that malloc on newer Windows-versions are actually
> faster? AFAIK, malloc does a lot more inside the CRT than in the
> kernel...

If it does turn out that nedalloc is not needed any more, please
remove it from compat/, too. ;-)

Thanks for cleaning up.

Jonathan
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