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Re: GC and continuations
Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au> writes:
> > Guile grabs memory with malloc, and free doesn't usually returns the
> > memory to the OS.
>
> I'm pretty sure that guile never frees cell memory.
Guile frees heap chunks that don't contain any live cells after a GC.
I'm not sure if this situation is very frequent or in any way
predictable, though.
> - Tel
--mike
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