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- From: black@westford.ccur.com (Samuel Black)
- Subject: Re: FLAME, FLAME ON X!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.152545.1929@westford.ccur.com>
- Sender: usenet@westford.ccur.com (UNIX News)
- Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp. Westford, MA
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:25:45 GMT
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- >Actually, I once saw a malloc package that could be made to return some
- >memory to the operating system by clever use of sbrk and brk, but I doubt
- >that any X11 servers are written using such a technique. Might be an
- >interesting experiment for some vendor, though ...
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- Our server uses its own "intelligent" version of malloc, and it works
- quite well. Of course, there are still dozens of memory leaks in the
- server that need to be fixed, also.
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- Now, if we just had an OS that provided support for sparse memory spaces, ...
-
- - sam black
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