Re: Larger GC thresholds for non-interactive Emacs

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> AFAIK, that's not really true.  We call 'free' and glibc does release
> to the OS when it can.  And don't forget that Emacs calls 'malloc' a
> lot not just for conses and other Lisp data.

Wasn't there a huge discussion about this a couple months ago and the
conclusion was that glibc rarely releases memory back to the OS?  That's
why we added `malloc-trim'.

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