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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 01:29:37 PST
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- From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
- Sender: jwz%thalidomide@lucid.com
- Subject: Re: GC idea
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- In message <1992Nov10.085034.21556@daimi.aau.dk> Christian Lynbech wrote:
- >
- > Lucid emacs has an unfortunate tendence to become VERY large.
-
- Well, that's because of plain old memory leaks in the parts of emacs in which
- you have to use this tinkertoy language which requires you to do all of your
- own storage management (aka C). A new GC wouldn't help there.
-
- (Well, I guess you could build a conservative GC into gmalloc...)
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- -- Jamie
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