Re: C-h f now permanently loads ~2MB

[Dave Love]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> It assumes that malloc returns multiple-of-8 addresses and thus
> allows the full address space to be used for Lisp data.

Surely you need `memalign' for that?  (Non-portable, but in GNU
malloc.)

>> The Boehm GC give you some tools to trace memory allocation and
>> pointers keeping data live when they shouldn't, but I don't know how
>> easy they are is to use.
>
> Sounds very interesting.

It didn't seem to sound interesting to anyone when I advertised the
work :-(.