Date:	Wed, 10 May 2000 08:17:12 -0400 (EDT)
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From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT delorie DOT com>
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In-reply-to:	<200005091956.PAA28210@envy.delorie.com> (message from DJ Delorie
	on Tue, 9 May 2000 15:56:59 -0400)
Subject:	Re: Perfomance of gc-simple
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> Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 15:56:59 -0400
> From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
> 
> > Yes, but why use mmap for that?  Why not use sbrk?
> 
> When you're done with the mmap'd memory, you can unmap it and release
> it to the system.  With sbrk you can only return it to your local
> heap

Doesn't sbrk return memory to the system when called with a negative
argument, at least on some systems?  (Ours doesn't, but this is
obviously not a problem for DJGPP anyway.)

> Plus, individual mmap'd regions can be grown as needed.

How would this be implemented, typically?  Growing a memory region
should need to relocate it, at least sometimes, no?  It sounds a lot
like realloc, unless I'm missing something.

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