From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about bignum usage
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 11:38:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <227390B1-09FC-4FD5-B9E9-2729624A0D13@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86ed8snk0p.fsf@gnu.org>
20 juni 2024 kl. 09.36 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> This means we check for expired times every 100 msec, so yes, we will
> create a lot of bignums.
Right, and a few hundred bignums allocated every second isn't something even the current GC should have any trouble with.
But it is a bit wasteful, isn't it? We use very short-lived bignums for internal purposes even when the picosecond part is 0, in places like decode_timer where there should be need to cons anything at all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-06-20 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-20 5:59 Question about bignum usage Gerd Möllmann
2024-06-20 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-20 6:34 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-06-20 7:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-20 8:35 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-06-20 13:07 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-06-20 13:43 ` Helmut Eller
2024-06-20 14:17 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-06-20 18:32 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-06-20 18:37 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-06-20 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-20 19:16 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-06-20 19:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-20 19:42 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-06-20 9:38 ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
2024-06-20 10:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
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