Re: Question about memory usage

[Stefan Monnier]

>> But shouldn't Emacs reuse the memory from previous loop iteration 
>> instead of allocating it?
> That depends on the heap fragmentation and the efficiency of the
> memory allocating functions to deal with fragmentation.

The elements of buffer-undo-list in this case are just cons cells (and
immediate integers and nil), IIUC so I don't see why fragmentation would
get in the way: the previous cons-cell of the buffer-undo-list of the
previous iterations, reclaimed by the GC, should be readily reusable.


        Stefan