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How are new[] and malloc implemented in Windows?

So when you call malloc or new [] from your C/C++ application, how does the CRT translate it into Windows API calls?
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Heaps: Why is there a tradeoff between amount of space occupied (fragmentation), and speed at which operations are carried out?

Apparently, the two major judging criteria of the effectiveness of heaps are (1) how much we can minimize the amount of space it takes up and (2) how fast operations on the heap can be carried out, ...