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Wishlist: There should be a `malloc-trim' function

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel <at> yandex.ru>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: carlos <at> redhat.com, fweimer <at> redhat.com, dj <at> redhat.com, 45200 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2021 09:07:35 +0200

On February 3, 2021 8:04:21 AM GMT+02:00, Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel <at> yandex.ru> wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-02-02 at 23:50 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > >     with malloc_trim:
> > > >         (8.920371394 232 2.106283245)
> > > >         (9.038083601 231 2.060810826)
> > > >         (9.140798641 231 2.0594013240000004)
> > > > 
> > > >     without malloc_trim:
> > > >         (8.987097209 232 2.070143482)
> > > >         (8.700478084 231 1.7745506179999997)
> > > >         (8.781121056 231 1.7870093610000004)
> > > > 
> > > > The difference is just 3-4% (8.7 / 9 ≈ 0.9666666667). It looks
> to me
> > > > insignificant enough to not show up anywhere during interactive
> work
> > > > with Emacs.
> > > 
> > > It's indeed not too costly, but what about the upside?
> > 
> > BTW, maybe a better way forward than trying to convince us that it's
> > a good default (which could be hard if the upside is a reduction of
> the
> > memory use by a few percent: for many people it might be less
> > relevant/noticeable than the corresponding few percents lost in
> speed)
> > is to provide a patch that adds a new *ELisp* function that calls
> > `malloc_trim`, which you can then add to `post-gc-hook` in your init
> > file when your usage pattern makes it useful.
> 
> Upside indeed is the memory reduction.

How much memory reduction?  Can you show the numbers?

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