From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 31852@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31852: Make memory-limit obsolete
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 18:02:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o9gazses.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36f43145-ab73-d6e4-ae70-4d801bfe7583@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sat, 16 Jun 2018 06:38:55 -0700)
> Cc: 31852@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 06:38:55 -0700
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I don't understand what we gain by declaring
> > this tiny function obsolete
>
> Nobody uses the function (clearly, since it doesn't work) so we gain simplicity,
> which is a win.
If nobody uses the function, I see no gain at all, because obsoleting
a function tells those who use it not to.
> > Wouldn't it be enough just to add to the function's
> > documentation a note that the estimation should be expected to be
> > inaccurate with modern memory-management technologies?
>
> Complicating the documentation would work against the goal of
> simplicity.
Then let's just move this to Lisp, and do nothing else. That's even
simpler, IMO.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-16 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-16 1:33 bug#31852: Make memory-limit obsolete Paul Eggert
2018-06-16 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 13:38 ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-16 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-06-16 15:34 ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-16 15:51 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 16:27 ` Paul Eggert
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