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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro" <oitofelix@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Garbage collector: is 800kb a good default?
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:53:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8264e895-293a-3f16-514b-d4e59f38da44@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7xrtcwm.fsf@oitofelix.com>

On 4/10/20 11:26 AM, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro wrote:
> Can’t we use an alternative allocator that do return freed memory?[2]

glibc malloc/free does return freed memory on occasion. See:

https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/MallocInternals

and look for "Free Algorithm".



  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-10 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-09 11:59 Garbage collector: is 800kb a good default? Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-09 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-09 13:44   ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-09 14:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-09 14:46       ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-09 16:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-10 16:40           ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-09 19:05         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-10 16:26           ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-09 18:48     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-10 14:26   ` Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
2020-04-10 16:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-10 18:26       ` Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
2020-04-10 18:53         ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2020-04-09 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-09 14:20   ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-09 14:23   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-09 18:42     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-09 19:08       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-09 19:31         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-10  6:19           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-10 13:03             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-10 13:42               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-10 14:34                 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-10 14:38                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-10 15:37                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-10 15:52                   ` Andrea Corallo
2020-04-10 16:45                     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-10 17:18                       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-04-09 14:48   ` Andrea Corallo

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