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Re: In the search of heap enlightenment...

Greg Harvey <Greg.Harvey@thezone.net> writes:

> Does anyone actually use segments with ncells!=1, or is it a vestigial
> feature?

It is not used currently.

However, I think we should keep that code as an option for the future
if it doesn't involve big costs.  Having 4-word cells in addition to
2-word cells could be used to optimize the representation of some data
types to gain both speed and space.

/mdj