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> From: Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 10:44:06 +0000
> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> And, yes, we should keep the mark bits separate from the data so we
> could avoid unsharing an entire page because a single object in it
> survives GC.

Ah, so not really an easy change after all.

And how do you propose to keep the mark bits separately and still
maintain coherency between the object and its bits?