Re: Garbage collection

[James McCartney <asynth@...>]

On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 01:39  PM, Thatcher Ulrich wrote:

> This is cool, but one problem I have with this is that unless you
> sweep, the "free" objects don't get returned to the C allocator (you
> don't call C's free() on them).  Then, when you go to allocate new
> objects, the "free list" is essentially an unsorted bag of
> different-sized chunks.

It is not "an unsorted bag of different-sized chunks."
The treadmills are segregated into size classes.

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