Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!boulder!boulder.colorado.edu!grunwald From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: Garbage Collecting (and Memory Usage) Message-ID: Date: 7 Sep 89 19:31:39 GMT References: Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 8 In-reply-to: kindred@dopey.telesci.UUCP's message of 6 Sep 89 23:11:05 GMT What is needed is generational garbage collection. With this method, older, stable objects remain in heaps that don't get GC'd too often. By GC'ing smaller regions, possibly more often, the GC is much less obtrusive. However, I've never seen anyone volunteer to change Emacs to do this.