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
next prev 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]
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[not found] ` <jwvo9npprfw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2017-12-01 1:03 ` Steve Fink
[not found] <CAOqdjBe98BpWE- 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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