From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) In-Reply-To: <775b8d190709062137u3e2838a9x165a69379ab2cf55@mail.gmail.com> References: <13426df10709061238l1e081fel101928310c9db13c@mail.gmail.com> <1189134549.6197.2.camel@ginkgo> <775b8d190709062109o1c0a64b8y55ceb79e95083ecb@mail.gmail.com> <56818661-B933-4FC2-9522-203075455287@orthanc.ca> <775b8d190709062137u3e2838a9x165a69379ab2cf55@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <8DD81F9B-9ECF-4B1D-A759-E45701D82551@orthanc.ca> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Lyndon Nerenberg Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 overcommits memory? Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:43:43 -0700 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: ba66cd72-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 2007-Sep-6, at 21:37 , Bruce Ellis wrote: > coding at home and getting something significant working > is what i meant. but by all means write to the list instead. So how do you see the way out of a brk() implementation while still coding in a pointer based environment? Code only follows engineering. If I even Thought About Mentioning GC, well, ... let me put up the window shutters.