Does gnu emacs ever compact its heap

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From: Robert L Krawitz
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1991 02:43

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   Date: Tue, 15 Oct 91 18:04:55 EDT
   From: Tim McNerney <TimMcN@Berlin.Think.COM>

      Date: Tue, 15 Oct 91 18:02:15 EDT
      From: Robert L Krawitz <rlk@Think.COM>

      It never compacts its buffer space.  The lisp heap is compacted.

   How does this explain the thrashing behavior?

Probably because active buffers are scattered through the address space
and the Sun pager doesn't realize that the active memory is scattered.

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