From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Indentation and gc Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 16:20:53 +0200 Message-ID: <835yb7were.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20230310110747.4hytasakomvdyf7i.ref@Ergus> <20230310110747.4hytasakomvdyf7i@Ergus> <87a60k657y.fsf@web.de> <838rg4zmg9.fsf@gnu.org> <87ttyrwobj.fsf@localhost> <20230311111730.fatow74xnbel7t3f@Ergus> <83o7ozwju8.fsf@gnu.org> <87jzznwjh3.fsf@localhost> <83jzznwjeh.fsf@gnu.org> <87fsabwirg.fsf@localhost> <83h6urwhu0.fsf@gnu.org> <875yb7wgpd.fsf@localhost> <83bkkzwgcp.fsf@gnu.org> <87y1o3v1fr.fsf@localhost> <838rg3wf7k.fsf@gnu.org> <87v8j7v0a4.fsf@localhost> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32630"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: spacibba@aol.com, arne_bab@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ihor Radchenko Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 11 15:21:39 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pb06J-0008DF-2E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2023 15:21:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pb05y-0004YU-W0; Sat, 11 Mar 2023 09:21:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pb05t-0004Xc-40 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2023 09:21:09 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pb05s-0007jC-4G; Sat, 11 Mar 2023 09:21:08 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=8txNQmjBsNuNJ/ZQcHOZTBWLl0DhPv9KxCHfAQKo3eg=; b=nNiDLWYC6kFo pcXSq5jciM+h8NJVabLw3e66C/VaqoN/FQdb3XFHKGfIc3EyuvNFK8b11koZHrWaUOuKpqCeWBnnk 1YFHhibCpkuUMi+r3EmxM7rYcQFun2JipcZnz19M7vq2gMErLI659ujMtxfSPHlUE+jIKOt+AXglX 9r8uFkoc1fChnC+/Se0kNt7OX2ZNPDkB/rUA+toAhFv/nLEQ7/2jvDCJASklO+iu3vZ6122Q/mu+p Q48ZKU6MFRPwAjggqRF5WGOLQkc5nuSJksOOSjI1GWIYHJ+aHXDVCzAx6mZ/XfBjyPH2g701BDl7S OOKdPQMN5zkuWBQXOY7SSw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pb05r-0004fU-D9; Sat, 11 Mar 2023 09:21:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87v8j7v0a4.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Sat, 11 Mar 2023 14:18:59 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:304320 Archived-At: > From: Ihor Radchenko > Cc: spacibba@aol.com, arne_bab@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 14:18:59 +0000 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> Examples when increasing the threshold is dangerous. > > > > Please describe such an example, because I don't think I understand > > what would it say. > > I was referring to your example in > https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/bg85qm/garbage_collector_magic_hack/emk013p/, > if I understand it correctly. That was meant just to demonstrate what could happen in principle, not describe real-life uses that matter to most of us. It even says so. IMO, having such synthetic examples in the manual won't help much, because people will reject them outright ("this can never happen to me").