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* `purecopy' usage in ruby-mode.el and python.el
@ 2012-12-26 18:53 Dmitry Gutov
  2012-12-26 19:12 ` Glenn Morris
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Dmitry Gutov @ 2012-12-26 18:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

Hi all,

I see some places in the above files where purecopy is called. But:

  Pure storage is allocated only while temacs is loading the standard
  preloaded Lisp libraries.

  (...)
  
  — Function: purecopy object (...)
  
  This function is a no-op except while Emacs is being built and dumped;
  it is usually called only in preloaded Lisp files.

I take this to mean that `purecopy' can only be useful in elisp files
that Emacs preloads during compilation, but not in ruby-mode, python, or
any third-party libraries. Is that true?

Can we remove its uses from non-preloaded packages?

--Dmitry




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* Re: `purecopy' usage in ruby-mode.el and python.el
  2012-12-26 18:53 `purecopy' usage in ruby-mode.el and python.el Dmitry Gutov
@ 2012-12-26 19:12 ` Glenn Morris
  2012-12-26 19:23   ` Dmitry Gutov
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2012-12-26 19:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dmitry Gutov; +Cc: emacs-devel

Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> I take this to mean that `purecopy' can only be useful in elisp files
> that Emacs preloads during compilation, but not in ruby-mode, python, or
> any third-party libraries.

Autoloads end up in loaddefs.el, which is preloaded.



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* Re: `purecopy' usage in ruby-mode.el and python.el
  2012-12-26 19:12 ` Glenn Morris
@ 2012-12-26 19:23   ` Dmitry Gutov
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Dmitry Gutov @ 2012-12-26 19:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: emacs-devel

On 26.12.2012 23:12, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov wrote:
>
>> I take this to mean that `purecopy' can only be useful in elisp files
>> that Emacs preloads during compilation, but not in ruby-mode, python, or
>> any third-party libraries.
>
> Autoloads end up in loaddefs.el, which is preloaded.

Ah, I see, thanks.

I'll take this to mean that I should convert the recent addition of 
Rakefile to auto-mode-alist to use purecopy, too.



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