diff --git a/manifest b/manifest
index 47369b1136..a96cf2f323 100644
--- a/manifest
+++ b/manifest
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-C Add\snewlines\sat\sthe\send\sof\ssome\serror\smessages\sin\sspeedtest1.
-D 2013-11-23T21:29:07.429
+C The\sMEMSYS5\salgorithm\sdoes\snot\shave\sto\sreturn\sthe\sblock\swith\sthe\slowest\naddress.\s\sAny\sblock\sof\sthe\sappropriate\ssize\swill\sdo.\s\sUse\sthe\sfirst\sblock\nfound\son\sthe\sfreelist\sfor\sthe\sappropriate\ssize\sfor\sa\sperformance\simprovement.
+D 2013-11-24T00:46:00.452
 F Makefile.arm-wince-mingw32ce-gcc d6df77f1f48d690bd73162294bbba7f59507c72f
 F Makefile.in e1a9b4258bbde53f5636f4e238c65b7e11459e2b
 F Makefile.linux-gcc 91d710bdc4998cb015f39edf3cb314ec4f4d7e23
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ F src/mem0.c 6a55ebe57c46ca1a7d98da93aaa07f99f1059645
 F src/mem1.c c0c990fcaddff810ea277b4fb5d9138603dd5d4b
 F src/mem2.c dce31758da87ec2cfa52ba4c5df1aed6e07d8e8f
 F src/mem3.c 61c9d47b792908c532ca3a62b999cf21795c6534
-F src/mem5.c 0025308a93838022bd5696cf9627ff4e40b19918
+F src/mem5.c 2221f7e4619619d2df16fcb8a1da2a165ae56d9d
 F src/memjournal.c 0683aac6cab6ec2b5374c0db37c0deb2436a3785
 F src/mutex.c d3b66a569368015e0fcb1ac15f81c119f504d3bc
 F src/mutex.h 5bc526e19dccc412b7ff04642f6fdad3fdfdabea
@@ -1142,7 +1142,8 @@ F tool/vdbe-compress.tcl f12c884766bd14277f4fcedcae07078011717381
 F tool/warnings-clang.sh f6aa929dc20ef1f856af04a730772f59283631d4
 F tool/warnings.sh d1a6de74685f360ab718efda6265994b99bbea01
 F tool/win/sqlite.vsix 030f3eeaf2cb811a3692ab9c14d021a75ce41fff
-P 659f1a98ae698d062269f8fdac84f733a460f5de
-R 0d67753f14410df579db17c64fb3786e
+P 6b98f0af7a6522873245d30598d7c79b8aeb9fa0 8191b512122c13d7fa61d8e5487652f13ec172f7
+R c70b3f80a0897046826a17fb7011539e
+T +closed 8191b512122c13d7fa61d8e5487652f13ec172f7
 U drh
-Z 430a11d968198395db1db68b7169dc35
+Z dce60b90fb1ae6b64b6c8216e4da2c33
diff --git a/manifest.uuid b/manifest.uuid
index fe94011755..648e8522b0 100644
--- a/manifest.uuid
+++ b/manifest.uuid
@@ -1 +1 @@
-6b98f0af7a6522873245d30598d7c79b8aeb9fa0
\ No newline at end of file
+12e612e8e7c4a6f83acf0daf5608151fb5ec1575
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/mem5.c b/src/mem5.c
index 5f99ebf43d..3870e91488 100644
--- a/src/mem5.c
+++ b/src/mem5.c
@@ -209,25 +209,6 @@ static int memsys5Size(void *p){
   return iSize;
 }
 
-/*
-** Find the first entry on the freelist iLogsize.  Unlink that
-** entry and return its index. 
-*/
-static int memsys5UnlinkFirst(int iLogsize){
-  int i;
-  int iFirst;
-
-  assert( iLogsize>=0 && iLogsize<=LOGMAX );
-  i = iFirst = mem5.aiFreelist[iLogsize];
-  assert( iFirst>=0 );
-  while( i>0 ){
-    if( i<iFirst ) iFirst = i;
-    i = MEM5LINK(i)->next;
-  }
-  memsys5Unlink(iFirst, iLogsize);
-  return iFirst;
-}
-
 /*
 ** Return a block of memory of at least nBytes in size.
 ** Return NULL if unable.  Return NULL if nBytes==0.
@@ -273,7 +254,8 @@ static void *memsys5MallocUnsafe(int nByte){
     sqlite3_log(SQLITE_NOMEM, "failed to allocate %u bytes", nByte);
     return 0;
   }
-  i = memsys5UnlinkFirst(iBin);
+  i = mem5.aiFreelist[iBin];
+  memsys5Unlink(i, iBin);
   while( iBin>iLogsize ){
     int newSize;