Re: Indentation and gc

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> >> Indeed. But despite all of the best efforts, fragmentation increases if
>> >> we delay GCs, right?
>> >
>> > Not IME, no.  That's why the memory footprint of a typical
>> > long-running session levels out.
>> 
>> Then what is the mechanism of gc-cons-threshold affecting the Emacs
>> memory footprint?
>
> Because higher threshold increases the probability that some free
> memory couldn't be released to the OS.

So, fragmentation? Or do we mis-communicate?
For me, memory fragmentation is when memory cannot be released to OS
and/or cannot be re-used to store new objects.

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