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From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [EXPERIMENT] Emacs with the SpiderMonkey garbage collector
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 11:27:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5A1A96FC.4040705@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOqdjBdNCg0zD_20sUKCHDiD2ZN2N0bbGSDqWh2orgY12AVVXA@mail.gmail.com>

 > I guess I'm an exceptional user, then, because I complain about it a
 > lot. It's very much in embarrassing-pause territory here.
 >
 >> Also I think a non-moving GC will be a lot easier to accommodate.
 >
 > I suspect that I don't fully understand the benefits of a moving GC,
 > because memory fragmentation alone simply has never been a problem for
 > me.

If there is an embarrassing-pause, then using a non-incremental copying
collector won't help anyway.  OTOH XEmacs has an incremental mark and
sweep collector so Emacs should be able to remove the embarrassing-pause
without copying.  But I never looked at the respective codes of XEmacs
and SpiderMonkey so maybe I'm missing something.

martin



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-26 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-23 19:01 [EXPERIMENT] Emacs with the SpiderMonkey garbage collector Pip Cet
2017-11-24  8:07 ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-24 16:23   ` Pip Cet
2017-11-24 18:20     ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-24 23:27       ` Pip Cet
2017-11-25  0:21         ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-25 23:50           ` Pip Cet
2017-11-24 22:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-24 23:05   ` Pip Cet
2017-11-25  4:15     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-25 23:50       ` Pip Cet
2017-11-26  1:20         ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-26  4:20           ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-26  5:11             ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-26 10:27         ` martin rudalics [this message]
     [not found]         ` <jwva7z9rgqh.fsf&#45;monnier+Inbox@gnu.org>
     [not found]           ` <9d7be625&#45;85ae&#45;54d5&#45;3897&#45;6f701c8ea124@cs.ucla.edu>
     [not found]             ` <jwvo9npprfw.fsf&#45;monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2017-12-01  1:03               ` Steve Fink
     [not found] <CAOqdjBe98BpWE&#45; Ey8fPY1DmfCiLYnB06d30Xqf_KMm_muvKbDg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-12-01 17:57 ` Steve Fink
2017-12-03  0:37   ` Pip Cet
2017-12-03  5:24     ` Steve Fink

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