This invention is directed to a system and method for allocation of random
access memory. A memory area is first acquired from a primary memory
allocation system of an associated data processing system. The memory
area includes a plurality of uniformly fixed size memory blocks. Next an
application program interface is interfaced with a plurality of processes
in connection with memory needed for each process. A memory request is
then received from each of the processes via the application program
interface with each memory request including data representing a
requested memory allocation size associated therewith. Memory from the
acquired memory blocks is then allocated to each of the processes
corresponding to each received memory request. Each allocation is defined
by a base memory address disposed within the memory area, an offset value
corresponding to the base memory address, and a corresponding memory
allocation size.