Subject: Re: bug#68244: hash-table improvements

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2024 13:51:51 +0200

> From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 12:34:05 +0100
> Cc: [email-masked],
>  Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,
>  Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> 
> Buffer memory is indeed treated differently and does not advance the GC clock as far as I can tell. Presumably the reasoning is that buffer size changes make a poor proxy for object deaths.

Buffer memory is usually allocated via mmap (nowadays, implicitly by
libc), which is why it is treated differently.