From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Reachable killed buffers Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:30:33 +0200 Message-ID: <50521839.9060605@gmx.at> References: <504848D0.4020908@yandex.ru> <5048D826.3040103@yandex.ru> <5049C400.8070400@gmx.at> <504DB6DD.9030002@yandex.ru> <504E042E.5040100@yandex.ru> <504ECB49.4050509@yandex.ru> <50504349.7090603@gmx.at> <50509262.1070601@cs.ucla.edu> <50509533.9000502@yandex.ru> <50509698.5060108@cs.ucla.edu> <505098FB.1020801@gmx.at> <5050B151.2020304@yandex.ru> <5050CC93.3010506@cs.ucla.edu> <5051645B.9070308@cs.ucla.edu> <50520EA7.7060707@gmx.at> <505213DF.8050300@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347559026 10267 80.91.229.3 (13 Sep 2012 17:57:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:57:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dmitry Antipov , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 13 19:57:09 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TCDew-0007AM-Ry for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:57:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32936 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCDes-0001u9-VM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:56:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42538) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCDel-0001bw-7U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:56:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCDek-0002LE-Gj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:56:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:48857) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCDek-0002L1-6X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:56:50 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 13 Sep 2012 17:30:08 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-45-36.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.45.36]) [62.47.45.36] by mail.gmx.net (mp033) with SMTP; 13 Sep 2012 19:30:08 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19mLuFwf7ZmgjKT0Aw+NlPL8MWSyUQdAlUZ5XuuQt IPUXm6LF3HYFCA In-Reply-To: <505213DF.8050300@cs.ucla.edu> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.23 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:153287 Archived-At: > Right, but as I understand it in the meantime it would still exist as > a dead buffer, and would continue to pressure the GC. And it might > inadvertently survive the next sweep too, no? Yes. But a user could have a reference right to the dead buffer which is much more likely than a reference to an object of a window's previous or next buffers. > The goal is to reclaim > all the dead buffers, not just some of them. Unless they have strong pointers. The ones from the windows are weak. martin