Does gnu emacs ever compact its heap

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From: Tim McNerney
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1991 21:46

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My officemate has noticed that gmacs thrashes more and more the longer
gmacs has been running (eg. days, weeks).  Getting rid of buffers does not
seem to help.  This has led me to wonder whether emacs ever compacts its
heap.  If it did, I suppose that the GC doesn't have to page as frequently
while GCing.  This behavior is especially noticeable on a SPARCstation 1
with 4Mb of physical memory.  Regardless of the size of image (eg. 11Mb),
no more than 1.6Mb appear to ever be resident.

--Tim

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