problem with memory allocation

[gumby at zembu.com (D. V. Henkel-Wallace)]

At 10:26 03-08-99 -0500, joel at oarcorp.com wrote:
>malloc is built on top of Region which is built on top of a Heap.

Does anybody on this list actually take advantage of this layering?

Everybody who uses malloc or new uses the same single region.  I can 
understand wanting to use different regions for some applications, but 
different heaps?