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<p>The allocator should not waste time zeroing the allocated buffers. This is not only about speed, but also memory usage, since the operating system kernel doesn't necessarily allocate the requested memory in physical memory until it is actually used. With small input files, liblzma may actually need only a fraction of the memory that it requested for allocation.</p>
<dl class="section note"><dt>Note</dt><dd>LZMA_MEM_ERROR is also used when the size of the allocation would be greater than SIZE_MAX. Thus