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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: larsi@gnus.org
Subject: shr using `make-xwidget' incorrectly
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 09:54:51 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfw31mok.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87sfw31mok.fsf.ref@yahoo.com


Lars, you might want to know that `make-xwidget', invoked without a
buffer argument, will create an xwidget attached to the current buffer.

That xwidget won't be killed until you kill the buffer it's attached to.
So you should either try to re-use existing xwidgets (see
`get-buffer-xwidgets'), or to kill the buffer the xwidget is attached
to.  Otherwise, every re-render will cause more xwidgets to be created,
leading to undesirable resource consumption (WebKit widgets are heavy!).

Which reminds me of another problem (in the Emacs 28 xwidget code as
well): If an xwidget's buffer is killed, but references to it still
exist somewhere, crashes can happen, because the GTK resources allocated
to the xwidget are killed in `kill_buffer_xwidgets' and not during
garbage collection.

I think the best thing to do in this case would be to introduce a
`dead' state for xwidgets, not unlike killed buffers and dead frames,
which an xwidget is set to after being killed.

Then, performing any sort of operation on a killed xwidget can either
throw an error, or do nothing.

But I'd like the others to chime in as well.  Thanks.



       reply	other threads:[~2021-11-11  1:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87sfw31mok.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2021-11-11  1:54 ` Po Lu [this message]
2021-11-11  3:26   ` shr using `make-xwidget' incorrectly Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-11  3:38     ` Po Lu
2021-11-11  3:41       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-11  3:43         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-11  4:46         ` Po Lu
2021-11-11  4:56           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-11  5:10             ` Po Lu
2021-11-11 12:33               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-11 12:37                 ` Po Lu
2021-11-11 12:43                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-11 12:47                     ` Po Lu
2021-11-11  6:37     ` Introduce "killed" state for xwidgets (Re: shr using `make-xwidget' incorrectly) Po Lu
2021-11-11  7:59       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-11  9:28         ` Po Lu
2021-11-11 12:23       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-11 12:25         ` Po Lu
2021-11-11 15:10           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-12  0:18             ` Po Lu
2021-11-11  6:58   ` shr using `make-xwidget' incorrectly Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-11  7:05     ` Po Lu
2021-11-11  8:01       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-11  9:27         ` Po Lu

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