A call to malloc will definitely ask the operating system for memory while a call to sys_malloc may very well return memory that has been already allocated by the engine and hence is immediately available.
Yeah, now I remember why I initially decided to use malloc() instead of sys_malloc() when I started to use linked lists...
When I read the manuall (but didnt understand most of it) and saw the part talking about that... It scared me away from sys_malloc() and sys_nxalloc()... I assumed sys_malloc() would be faster but limited by nexus size or something, and that malloc() would be slower but have all your RAM available for use. Would that assumption be true?
