[gclist] What wrong with the GC in xemacs

Charles Fiterman cef@geode.geodesic.com
Tue, 2 Apr 1996 12:26:15 -0600


>Emacs uses a stop-and-collect mark/sweep GC. It's unremarkable
>stuff. ....

If they are anxious to return space to the system I would expect
a moving collector. You could move everything to disk and read
it back. This would solve some system crash problems at the
expense of speed.