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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@bpr.best.vwh.net>
To: Martin Jambon <m.jambon@ibcp.fr>
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On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Martin Jambon wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is it possible that non-negligible amounts of unreachable data are never
> freed by the GC?

Sure. There was a great demo of this on the translator's list for the
O'Reilly book; create a representation of stacks based on arrays with a
top of stack index. Popping items off of the stack by moving the TOS
pointer around won't free them. Could you be doing something like that?

-- Brian
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