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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Opportunistic garbage collection
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 09:27:30 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <837ebi1twt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2bab9ee-ba8f-a936-3b07-1de293e72eda@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:17:45 -0700)

> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:17:45 -0700
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> >        /* If there is still no input available, ask for GC.  */
> >        if (!detect_input_pending_run_timers (0))
> > -	maybe_gc ();
> > +	maybe_gc (); /* FIXME: Why?  */
> >      }
> If we don't know why, let's get rid of it....

We know why, we just think this actually causes GC only very rarely.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-25  6:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-24 20:54 Opportunistic garbage collection Stefan Monnier
2019-04-25  0:17 ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-25  6:27   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-04-25 12:49     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-25 18:18   ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-25 22:14     ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-26  0:15       ` Stefan Monnier

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