From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Buffer-/frame-local variables [Was: Re: Make buffer- and frame-locals a misc object]
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:35:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvboi4m9py.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <502E553C.6090705@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Antipov's message of "Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:29:16 +0400")
>> Another reason is that until they're initialized, the fields contain
>> invalid values, so if the GC sees them we're in trouble, right?
> Not quite. In our terms, the core thing for simple generational GC is:
I didn't mean to say that a write-barrier during initialization is
a bug, only that it can't be necessary since the object is not "GC
ready" yet.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-21 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-15 10:50 Make buffer- and frame-locals a misc object Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-15 14:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-15 14:33 ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-15 16:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-16 4:10 ` Buffer-/frame-local variables [Was: Re: Make buffer- and frame-locals a misc object] Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-17 13:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-17 14:29 ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-21 17:35 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-08-17 17:11 ` Paul Eggert
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