What's the differences between VirtualAlloc and HeapAlloc?

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Published on 2009-05-16T09:38:41Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 19:21 UTC
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There are lots of method to allocate memory in windows enviorment, such as VirtualAlloc/HeapAlloc/malloc/new.

Thus , what's the difference among them?

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