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Re: Garbage collector: is 800kb a good default?


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Garbage collector: is 800kb a good default?
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:53:18 -0700
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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".



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