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bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed
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Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed |
Date: |
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 16:12:23 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1.91 (gnu/linux) |
On Feb 03 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> The purpose of freeing memory is to make it available for further
> allocations by the program. You seem to interpret "freeing memory" to
> mean that memory should be returned to the OS, but that's not
> necessarily true, and isn't required to allow the freeing program be
> able to allocate more memory in the future.
Especially as asking the OS to (de)allocate memory is a more expensive
operation.
Andreas.
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"And now for something completely different."
- bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed, (continued)
- bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed, DJ Delorie, 2021/02/03
- bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed, Konstantin Kharlamov, 2021/02/03
- bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed, DJ Delorie, 2021/02/03
- bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/03
- bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed, Konstantin Kharlamov, 2021/02/03
- bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/03
- bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed,
Andreas Schwab <=
- bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed, DJ Delorie, 2021/02/03
- bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/03
- bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed, DJ Delorie, 2021/02/03
- bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed, Stefan Monnier, 2021/02/03
- bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed, DJ Delorie, 2021/02/03
- bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed, Stefan Monnier, 2021/02/03
- bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed, DJ Delorie, 2021/02/03
- bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed, Stefan Monnier, 2021/02/03
- bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed, DJ Delorie, 2021/02/03
- bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed, Stefan Monnier, 2021/02/03