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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | Re: When should ralloc.c be used? |
| Date: | Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:14:56 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> Not entirely true: ralloc calls the system sbrk with a negative
>> argument when it feels like it.
> You can also madvise(MADV_DONTNEED, ...) regions *inside* the heap that
> contain only freed memory. This procedure also returns memory to the
> operating system.
ralloc.c doesn't do this currently.
Stefan
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