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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>,
	Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reachable killed buffers
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:47:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7grydrbm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5051645B.9070308@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:43:07 -0700")

>> Arguably, if (part of) that list is shared with some other data
>> structure, then we indeed shouldn't remove dead buffers from it.
> But the patch doesn't implement that either, right?
> If part of the list is shared, but the GC doesn't discover
> this until after that code runs, it'll remove dead
> buffers from that part.

Oops, you're right.  So, I think it's OK to remove the dead buffers
(like we do now), but indeed the proposed patch wouldn't be good because
it would sometimes remove them and sometimes not, depending on the order
in which the heap is traversed by the mark phase.


        Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-13 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1T9II0-0005q4-Gh@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2012-09-05 18:24 ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r109890: Do not mark objects from deleted buffers, windows and frames Stefan Monnier
2012-09-05 19:15   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-06  6:55   ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-09-06  7:00     ` Herring, Davis
2012-09-06  7:28     ` martin rudalics
2012-09-06  9:57       ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-09-06 14:42         ` martin rudalics
2012-09-06 12:53       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-06 14:42         ` martin rudalics
2012-09-06 12:52     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-06 14:42       ` martin rudalics
2012-09-06 17:33         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-07  9:52           ` martin rudalics
2012-09-06 17:06       ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-09-06 17:37         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-07  9:53           ` martin rudalics
2012-09-07 15:19             ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-10  9:46             ` Reachable killed buffers [Was: Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r109890: Do not mark objects from deleted buffers, windows and frames] Dmitry Antipov
2012-09-10 13:25               ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-10 15:15                 ` Reachable killed buffers Dmitry Antipov
2012-09-10 20:15                   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-10 21:10                     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-11  5:25                     ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-09-11 13:06                       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-12  8:09                       ` martin rudalics
2012-09-12 13:47                         ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-12 13:59                           ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-09-12 14:05                             ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-12 14:15                               ` martin rudalics
2012-09-12 15:59                                 ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-09-12 17:37                                   ` martin rudalics
2012-09-12 17:55                                   ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-13  3:29                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-13  4:43                                       ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-13  5:00                                         ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-09-13  5:18                                           ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-13 12:47                                         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-09-13 16:49                                         ` martin rudalics
2012-09-13 17:11                                           ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-13 17:30                                             ` martin rudalics
2012-09-14 12:10                                               ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-09-14 13:29                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-14 13:38                                                 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-13 18:01                                             ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-09-06  7:20   ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r109890: Do not mark objects from deleted buffers, windows and frames martin rudalics

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