Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Nix <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:11:29 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> I'd be scared to trust my data to this one.

Don't be.  It's well tested on many platforms, and the Windows build
still uses it.  I don't think there are any bug reports related to it.

> Emacs relies on all of these allocating the buffer storage in a single
> (virtually) contiguous chunk (modulo the gap)

The buffer text is a contiguous chunk of memory; the gap is just a
portion of that chunk ready to receive inserted text.