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+The Hoard memory allocator is a fast, scalable, and memory-efficient
+memory allocator. It runs on a variety of platforms, including Linux,
+Solaris, and Windows. Hoard is a drop-in replacement for malloc()
+that can dramatically improve application performance, especially for
+multithreaded programs running on multiprocessors.