ue one, i.e. a small counter value.
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Thread-local allocation allocates directly through the global
allocator, if the object is of a size or kind not covered by the
local free lists.
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If there is an appropriate local free list, the allocator checks whether it
contains a sufficiently small counter value.  If so, the counter is simply
incremented by the counter value, and the global allocator is used.
In this way, the initial few allocations of a given size bypass the local
allocator.  A thread that only