Refereces:

1) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2158196/multithreaded-heap-management

2) http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/multiproc/multiproc.html

3) http://www.drdobbs.com/184416249;jsessionid=1XQUWVDDEWMA5QE1GHPCKHWATMY32JVN    <an old article, applied to vc 6.0.>

4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoard_memory_allocator