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Re: GC and continuations
- To: Michael Livshin <mlivshin at bigfoot dot com>
- Subject: Re: GC and continuations
- From: Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe at linux dot zrz dot TU-Berlin dot DE>
- Date: 17 Feb 2000 18:07:03 +0100
- Cc: Janis Dzerins <jonis at mt dot lv>, Ole Myren Rohne <ole dot rohne at cern dot ch>, guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002171744330.21836-100000@goo.dev.mt.lv> <s3n1oz6cud.fsf@verisity.com>
Michael Livshin <mlivshin@bigfoot.com> writes:
> [ note that changing the Guile allocator to use mmap or brk could be a
> worthwhile project.
Doesn't malloc() use brk to allocate memory? I think there is
a malloc replacement called mmalloc() (or so) which uses mmap instead
of brk.
Jost