slab-alloc 0.1.1

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slab-alloc
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The slab allocator. This crate implements an allocator whose design is based on Jeff Bonwick's [The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel Memory Allocator](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/full_papers/bonwick.ps).

The slab allocator is an object allocator - it allocates and caches objects of a fixed type, and provides performance improvements over a general-purpose allocator. The allocator types in this crate implement the `ObjectAlloc` and `UntypedObjectAlloc` traits defined in the object-alloc crate. The slab allocator implemented in this crate is currently single-threaded and cannot be accessed concurrently.