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(2013/12/03 12:45), Matthew Garrett wrote:
> The threshold of 5K is based on information we received from vendors. We won't be reducing it. Can you confirm that attempting to create a variable larger than the remaining space in boot services will trigger garbage collection?
>

What boot service is the "boot services" in these sentences?

Thanks,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu