es are
transferred back to the global free list.
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Note that if the collector is configured for thread-local allocation,
GC versions before 7 do not invoke the thread-local allocator by default.
<TT>GC_malloc</tt> only uses thread-local allocation in version 7 and later.
In earlier versions, <TT>GC_MALLOC</tt> (all caps) may be directed
to use thread-local allocation by defining <TT>GC_REDIRECT_TO_LOCAL</tt>
and then include <TT>gc_local_alloc.h</tt>.
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For some more details see <A HREF="scale.html">her