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Re: Garbage collector: is 800kb a good default?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Garbage collector: is 800kb a good default?
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 19:49:04 +0300

> From: Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro <address@hidden>
> Cc: Dmitrii Korobeinikov <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:26:36 -0300
> 
> > On GNU/Linux, Emacs doesn't really return malloc'ed memory to the
> > system, so once the memory footprint grows, it more or less stays that
> > way even after GC.
> 
> Really?  Why is that?

Because that's how malloc/free are implemented in glibc.



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