From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU is looking for Google Summer of Code Projects Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 13:45:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877dzcpgr7.wl-all_but_last@163.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="28536"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Zhu Zihao Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 22 18:46:36 2020 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 1jG4gE-0006wd-3U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2020 18:46:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48580 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jG4ft-0007fR-KH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2020 13:46:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53621) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jG4fH-0007BZ-9O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2020 13:45:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jG4fE-00046V-On for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2020 13:45:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:28495) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jG4fE-000468-IR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2020 13:45:32 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id CB78F44F755; Sun, 22 Mar 2020 13:45:31 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 60CBC44F74C; Sun, 22 Mar 2020 13:45:30 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1584899130; bh=kxxDD+iHIGwYy2spioDxDXaP3yIrhYuzDYhhQe/aWQw=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=gLLnYS3M3z7XRo8xO/TDY0RtZwChfcUyJ4jugDzAdNbyQDILM/BamDI1Sk9ikLVP9 cB0skrdpjITsdVf7CXgsP5YWVbgSQvdQJVysRgitc53BlpPTY0HNhgFqk4DrDwFhLV 3syB4ZbrmvDF57LZXaphjiO5v20tgpu8ct+Xk5xxhpASobYf2Et69Q17oQS2B4Se5W XZC/gc+Owvml8ansM6oI8HNZJK+Z5N7lpu7RVQlyE7uZfUfkSGZECE8H5zrLByeX8V FEREu413AgEBRGvmy7p9Rn3/vmQVzJ+PmAzECay22lm4GuSKxHOdrhlAuqRuOA+rNd KRT8Ri/k8/hyQ== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [104.247.241.114]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1DD461205FE; Sun, 22 Mar 2020 13:45:30 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <877dzcpgr7.wl-all_but_last@163.com> (Zhu Zihao's message of "Sun, 22 Mar 2020 23:10:36 +0800") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 132.204.25.50 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:245687 Archived-At: >> It could also be a step towards replacing our GC with one that's >> incremental such the one in XEmacs (or even better: concurrent, unlike >> that of XEmacs). > Ravenbrook's MPS may suit this case (pure C implementation, efficient GC > algorithm), Indeed, it seems like it might be worth investigating. It'd be great to take advantage of someone else's efforts. > but I' m not sure whether its license is compatible. Not sure either, but at least nothing struck me as an obvious problem ;-) Stefan