From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Reading portions of large files
Date: 13 Jan 2003 17:05:57 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d6n1bhju.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: x58yxpqy9z.fsf@lola.goethe.zz
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> Cons cells are not integers. Care to explain for somebody dull?
Cons cells don't have a header, so they need to use the mark-bit of one
of their components, meaning that anything you can store into a
cons-cell needs a mark-bit.
I wonder how feasible it would be to use another sort of GC, like
stop-and-copy, which doesn't need mark-bits...
-Miles
--
"1971 pickup truck; will trade for guns"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-13 8:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.100.1042135372.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-01-09 18:20 ` Reading portions of large files David Kastrup
2003-01-10 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.153.1042230313.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-01-10 20:51 ` David Kastrup
2003-01-11 8:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.169.1042278925.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-01-11 10:42 ` David Kastrup
2003-01-12 20:38 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-01-13 7:40 ` Miles Bader
2003-01-13 7:42 ` Miles Bader
2003-01-13 7:55 ` David Kastrup
2003-01-13 8:05 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2003-01-20 7:50 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-01-24 7:55 ` Mac
2003-01-27 14:44 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-01-10 16:27 ` Eric Pement
2003-01-10 17:16 ` Brendan Halpin
2003-01-10 20:35 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-01-11 10:25 ` Klaus Berndl
2003-01-20 7:50 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-01-20 12:46 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-01-20 7:50 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-01-09 15:45 Gerald.Jean
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87d6n1bhju.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp \
--to=miles@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).