From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: When should ralloc.c be used? (WAS: bug#24358) Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 20:21:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87twe6sx2g.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <87eg51ng4r.fsf_-_@users.sourceforge.net> <87k2djwumn.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <83h98nidvd.fsf@gnu.org> <87eg3rvtsf.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <83k2dihpm9.fsf@gnu.org> <8760p2wzgj.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <838ttyhhzu.fsf@gnu.org> <871szqwu51.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <831szqhbc2.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1itt79z.fsf_-_@users.sourceforge.net> <7baa18d4-2b09-caa8-005e-29008a383ad1@cs.ucla.edu> <83mvhwrgd5.fsf@gnu.org> <8539f38f-9a11-44c3-4de7-bb974c96206c@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1477268578 27918 195.159.176.226 (24 Oct 2016 00:22:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 00:22:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 24 02:22:54 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1byT29-0004eQ-J2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 02:22:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43020 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1byT2B-0007UQ-HA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2016 20:22:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56607) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1byT1G-0007TF-DS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2016 20:21:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1byT1F-0004p5-JH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2016 20:21:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40415) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1byT1C-0004oP-HW; Sun, 23 Oct 2016 20:21:34 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1byT1B-0001m7-Uf; Sun, 23 Oct 2016 20:21:33 -0400 In-reply-to: <8539f38f-9a11-44c3-4de7-bb974c96206c@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sat, 22 Oct 2016 11:34:02 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208647 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I don't like it either, but would rather work on redoing the build process so > that we can use the native malloc on all hosts. That may not be desirable, though. We started using GNU malloc because it gave much better performance than some native mallocs. Whether that is true today, I have no idea; I am only saying that it is an issue to consider. Stefan said: > But that doesn't explain why we'd need to use ralloc in the mean time. Why would we not want to use ralloc? It made a big improvement for memory management when I wrote it. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.