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But that’s extremely easy - you go through a linear list once and free them all. You don’t even need to bring the contents from main memory to do it.

(Exception is shared pages, not used for heap memory often.)

It's definitely easier, because you don't have interior pointers. But it's still work :)

The OS would have that job anyway.

It's optimized for that, so just let it do its job.