Memory block allocation system and method

In recent years, the number of users on the Internet has increased exponentially. With this increase in popularity, there has also come an increased demand for languages that enhance the "on-line" experience. To this end, new object-oriented computer-programming languages such as Curl™ and JAVA™ have been developed, which ostensibly provide not only platform independence, but also increased functionality. A system and method for allocating memory blocks and indexing the pointer to the memory blocks in a set of tables. The tables translate the pointers to the memory blocks enabling the efficient lookup of pointers during translation and garbage collection. The memory blocks further include structures for facilitating the indexing into tables and referencing pointers into allocated memory.