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Morten Skjelland <Morten.Skjelland@chembio.ntnu.no> writes:

> SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:
> | >  Isn't gnumalloc able to "deallocate" memory?
> | 
> | Not in the sense you're thinking of.  Do you have the relocating
> | allocator enabled?  (See the Installation file you got after building
> | XEmacs).

> So XEmacs, even with GNU malloc, can't deallocate memory?

With GNU malloc, it will never return memory to the system.  With the
relocating allocator it can return certain kinds of memory to the
system.  The only malloc I know of which does a reasonable job of
returning memory is the Doug Lea malloc (dlmalloc) mentioned a few
days ago.

