From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Opportunistic GC Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2021 11:44:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31748"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, Pip Cet , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andrea Corallo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 08 17:59:15 2021 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 1lJJDv-00088q-1h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2021 17:59:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60194 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lJJDu-0006k7-0G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2021 11:59:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42214) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lJIzT-0003AZ-DP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2021 11:44:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:1602) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lJIzJ-0003Np-Nq; Mon, 08 Mar 2021 11:44:18 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 3453344091A; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 11:44:08 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id C332D4408A0; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 11:44:06 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1615221846; bh=j2SyW0B2CJz9JjItBqEpIoa4VQ6zbZN9/yPCBV35NIY=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=lxDakTZWIQDGkmBtF18P6iVsKnbMlNn+NpGEg9/VtFajfiiDLAO6i3Uzeug7gBCJC H3CxuaY/94uQ9IxStKjgplMX2YXaFrTsNqOi9/ech4gMO+vgoVl+w1W5+T9hGB3z4C 0RMRM8Ij5zo3S0K5Bmm8pz3WvpSySzVr245BgfCemBpuXMVm3xueW08A9LUQYHZQUV 7VoDM0ZEcSNUxWR46MI1tBnuR4dpxGxOBPKc73xipgKuBGYZp/VcLM5rSDYB1zqlO0 b7MLWmix++w9xrQ5hQIieGgt5p1cX82KU8dEwHx4T/g6j+yGs22SRRU7d2K8rajQrf obsz7/rEgE2pw== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [216.154.43.249]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8C8EA12019C; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 11:44:06 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Andrea Corallo's message of "Mon, 08 Mar 2021 15:52:55 +0000") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-Spam_score_int: -42 X-Spam_score: -4.3 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:266210 Archived-At: > I also expect fork will work, I'm more wondering about interaction with > sockets file descriptors or anything else in our codebase and/or in > libraries we have loaded. I suspect we wouldn't want to use `fork` literally, but rather something like Linux's `clone` so as to have more control about what is really shared. Basically, we just want to spawn a thread, except it runs in a snapshot of the heap. Stefan