Is there any benefit to use multiple heaps for memory management purposes?

Question

I am a student of a system software faculty. Now I\'m developing a memory manager for Windows. Here\'s my simple implementation of malloc() and free():

Answer 1

A reason would be the scenario that you need to execute a program internally e.g. running simulation code. By creating your own heap you could allow that heap to have execution rights which by default for security reasons is turned off. (Windows)