From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: t and nil in pure memory? Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:13:38 -0700 Message-ID: References: <200911112023.nABKNrH6023933@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87pr7oxieq.fsf@freebits.de> <200911130524.nAD5O5uu009102@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <200911152108.nAFL8IBl006966@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Tom Tromey NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258571844 4740 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2009 19:17:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:17:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development discussions To: Ken Raeburn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 18 20:17:16 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NAq1f-0002el-Vx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:17:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43254 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAq1f-0006Vw-69 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:17:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NApyO-0004GO-Js for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:13:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NApyK-0004Ce-2G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:13:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38873 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NApyJ-0004CS-Pj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:13:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:8506) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NApyJ-0007xV-At for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:13:43 -0500 Original-Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nAIJDdTt022262 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:13:39 -0500 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nAIJDdsv030809; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:13:39 -0500 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nAIJDc5Q012149; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:13:38 -0500 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 1719C378310; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:13:38 -0700 (MST) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: (Ken Raeburn's message of "Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:53:28 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.12 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:117205 Archived-At: >>>>> "Ken" == Ken Raeburn writes: Ken> But maybe we should also consider a more drastic change: Use Hans Ken> Boehm's GC library. FWIW, there's already a branch for this. Apparently the work was never completed, though. There's also a bit of traffic about it in the emacs-devel archives. Tom