Re: Memory again

[martin rudalics]

> Compaction implies the moving of live objects, which means that you
> should be able to find _all_ pointers to such objects and update them.
> Emacs GC has no such features, but it's technically possible
> to enhance mark/sweep GC to do some heap compaction.

It's non-trivial to compact a heap with a conservative collector.  Some
variant of Bartlett's algorithm would be needed.

martin