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From: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2018 08:03:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2sh2kbk6i.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvmustqf4c.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org

On Fri, Sep 07 2018, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Currently, this indirection comes "for free" since we use that same
> indirection to let the GC compact the set of string-data-bytes objects
> to try and reduce memory fragmentation.  But I think we should not have
> our high-level API impose such an indirection at the lower level,
> especially since this (mis)feature is virtually never used.

Would it be hard to have two internal string types, where the "normal"
string type has no indirection but can be changed (by updating the type
header) to the other type that has the indirection?

Helmut




      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-08  6:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-07 19:52 `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 21:33 ` Johan Bockgård
2018-09-07 23:12   ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 23:41     ` John Wiegley
2018-09-08  5:17       ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-08  6:34       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08  2:04     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08  2:17       ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-08  6:41     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 18:03       ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 18:20         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 18:36           ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 20:59             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 22:09               ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-09  5:22                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10  0:18                   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-09  6:07           ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-09  6:26             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-09 14:44               ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-09 15:17                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-09 16:27                   ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-10  5:48                     ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-10  3:03                   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-16 21:05                   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-10  5:47                 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-10  5:48               ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-10  3:02             ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08  6:03 ` Helmut Eller [this message]

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