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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 21:05:28 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu
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Subject: Re: unixy sbrk and win2k
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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu
> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:24:40 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> But I wouldn't expect EMACS to be calling sbrk() when CTRL is being
> pressed?  

Why not?  Emacs is a memory-intensive program: Lisp objects are
constantly being born and once in a while deleted by the garbage
collector.  It's quite possible that CTRL is being pressed while
Emacs called sbrk, isn't it?

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