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Moloch has been used figuratively in English literature from John Milton’s
Paradise Lost (1667) to Allen Ginsberg’s "Howl" (1955), to refer to a person or thing demanding or requiring a very costly sacrifice. — Wikipedia on Moloch
I do not consider it coincidental that this name sounds like malloc. — Ian Barland
ref: Programming Languages: Application and Interpertation, Chapter 11. http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/Memory_Management.html#%28part._.Manual_.Reclamation%29
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