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From: gilham@Portia.Stanford.EDU (fred gilham)
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Subject: Re: Memory Fragmentation, looking for compaction
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Date: 13 Mar 89 23:32:10 GMT
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In article <SDK.89Mar10181536@surya.cs.ucla.edu> sdk@surya.cs.ucla.edu (Scott D Kalter) writes:
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>but did not see anything that could perform a compaction.
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>Does anyone know of such a utility?
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>Thanks,
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>-Scott Kalter <sdk@cs.ucla.edu>

   Doing memory compaction is (virtually??) impossible because it
would involve modifying the pointers in the programs that use the
memory.  The only real solution is virtual memory.  (If anyone knows
different please correct me...)
-Fred Gilham