Re: XEmacs has just (more than) doubled in size

Friday, 20 August 1999

        Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:

...
>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Vroonhof
<vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch&gt; writes: Jan> which is why minimal tag bits were
invented. With the effects
Jan> of also increasing the range of integers and (with the
Jan> current naive allocator) a 50% memory overhead.

...
 Well, now we know where half of Steve's bloat came from! 
It's not!  The size doubling has gone away as mysteriously as it came, 
but now I cannot dump XEmacs without a fatal error message.

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