Memory Allocation
Memory allocation is more critical in an RTOS than in other operating systems.
First, speed of allocation is important. A standard memory allocation scheme scans a linked list of indeterminate length to find a suitable free memory block. This is unacceptable in an RTOS since memory allocation has to occur within a certain amount of time.
The simple fixed-size-blocks algorithm works quite well for simple embedded systems because of its low overhead.
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