From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: tags in the 3 lowest bits Date: 22 Nov 2003 02:45:41 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069462508 17766 80.91.224.253 (22 Nov 2003 00:55:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 00:55:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 22 01:55:04 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ANM3E-0007y2-00 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 01:55:04 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ANM3E-0002dt-00 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 01:55:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ANMtI-00049e-U6 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 20:48:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ANMtB-00049O-Gw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 20:48:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ANMsb-00048O-1l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 20:48:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.162.153.3] (helo=pfepb.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ANMrw-00046R-34; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 20:47:28 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id DB6605EE103; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 01:46:01 +0100 (CET) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18026 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18026 David Kastrup writes: > storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > > > [BoehmGC] > > > Dave Love has started work on this and it would be interesting to see > > > how it works out in practice (what kind of impact it has on memory > > > footprint and CPU usage). > > > > What is the status of that effort? Dave? > > > > IMHO, this is not a user-visible change, so I think we have more > > important things to work on. > > Actually, the current tag work _has_ been inspired by user complaints, > and it is quite user-visible. It changes the value of > most-positive-fixnum, and thus the maximum size of Emacs buffers. I wasn't questioning the usefulness of the current tag work. IMO we should move to LSB tags asap. The objection above was related to switching to the BoehmGC -- I think that's a much bigger effort than the proposed LSB changes, and I don't see (know) what _additional_ benefits using BoehmGC will give us (that's why I asked). -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk