[m-dev.] for review: direct reuse

[Peter Ross]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 02:53:04AM -0700, Ralph Becket wrote:
> 
> which is certainly worse, except for the fact that, under the Mercury
> scheme, having overwritten a larger cell with a smaller one, we no longer
> have the information that there is some extra space available if we wanted
> to go in the other direction.
> 
Good point, we may end up with a cascading stream of cell reuse, where
we progressively use less and less of the cell.

It is something we should think about if there is a possible solution.

Pete
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