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From: Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: plan9 compiler memory use
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 21:24:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CD26580C-F27D-485E-844D-A71BBEE1B97B@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <167243231558.2485736.5509457353063331582@minnie.tuhs.org>


at the risk of making a fool of myself - there are several people far better qualified here, however…

my memory is that the plan9 linker could be easily rebuilt to use malloc and free in the traditional style, reducing its memory footprint - though making it much slower.

-Steve




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