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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>, Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Conservative GC isn't safe
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 16:24:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <741b189f-2f2a-33b5-ba70-fa72499f27ef@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOqdjBc37sfai+vG35e7hkgmhxOHxJVoNwRMXpROd+jTBh2o9w@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/26/2016 11:08 AM, Pip Cet wrote:
> There's a new, currently undocumented, GCC option called
> -fkeep-gc-roots-live, which I think addresses this problem.

Thanks, I hadn't heard about this option. Apparently it's designed for 
Go, whose garbage collector follows pointers to any part of the 
pointed-at object. Although this doesn't match Emacs's current GC, it 
should be an improvement. Perhaps someone could try using this option to 
build Emacs, to see whether it hurts performance or correctness.




      reply	other threads:[~2016-11-27  0:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-26  8:11 Conservative GC isn't safe Daniel Colascione
2016-11-26  8:30 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-26  8:33   ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-26  9:01     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-26  9:04       ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-26  9:24         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-26 15:05         ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-26 15:21           ` Camm Maguire
2016-11-28 17:51           ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-28 18:00             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 18:03               ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-28 18:50                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 18:03             ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-28 19:18               ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-28 19:33                 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-28 19:37                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 19:40                   ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-28 20:03                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 20:09                       ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-28 19:26               ` Andreas Schwab
2016-11-28 19:34                 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-26 15:03   ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-26 15:12     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-26 16:29       ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-26 16:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-26 18:43           ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-27  6:17     ` Ken Raeburn
2016-11-27 15:39       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28  9:50         ` Ken Raeburn
2016-11-28 15:55           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-27 16:15       ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-28  9:36         ` Ken Raeburn
2016-11-28 15:55           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 16:15             ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-28 17:37               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 17:49                 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-28 17:57                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-28 18:05                     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-28 19:09                 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-11-28 19:33                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-29  8:49                     ` Ken Raeburn
2016-11-28 17:03             ` Björn Lindqvist
2016-11-28 16:13           ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-27 16:52       ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-26 19:08 ` Pip Cet
2016-11-27  0:24   ` Paul Eggert [this message]

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