GNU bug report logs - #45200
Wishlist: There should be a `malloc-trim' function

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel <at> yandex.ru>

Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 18:44:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: fweimer <at> redhat.com, dj <at> redhat.com, carlos <at> redhat.com, rudalics <at> gmx.at, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 45200 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2021 18:01:30 +0300
On Wed, 2021-02-03 at 16:51 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel <at> yandex.ru>
> > Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2021 12:49:47 +0300
> > Cc: carlos <at> redhat.com, fweimer <at> redhat.com, 45200 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
> > dj <at> redhat.com
> > 
> > Second, if Emacs indeed sees it's gonna allocate memory again right away,
> > then it shouldn't have even freed the memory in the first place.
> 
> You are not serious here, are you?  How could Emacs possibly know, at
> the level that does GC, whether the Lisp program that currently runs
> will need more memory in the future?  The program itself may know that
> (and then it may not, if memory is allocated by some low-level
> primitive), but GC itself?  If you think it can have powers for such
> prophecy, we should probably use that to write a program to advise us
> which shares to buy, and get rich -- fast.

Yeah, you're right, never mind this text, I think I kinda misinterpreted two sentences I was answering to.





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