UNBLOCK_INPUT;
#else
#ifndef SYSTEM_MALLOC
- /* Give GNU malloc's morecore some hysteresis
- so that we move all the relocatable blocks much less often. */
- __malloc_extra_blocks = 64;
+ /* Give GNU malloc's morecore some hysteresis so that we move all
+ the relocatable blocks much less often. The number used to be
+ 64, but alloc.c would override that with 32 in code that was
+ removed when SYNC_INPUT became the only input handling mode.
+ That code was condition on !DOUG_LEA_MALLOC, so the call to
+ mallopt above is left unchanged. (Actually, I think there's no
+ system nowadays that uses DOUG_LEA_MALLOC and also uses
+ REL_ALLOC.) */
+ __malloc_extra_blocks = 32;
#endif
#endif