From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: "Lars Ingebrigtsen" <larsi@gnus.org>,
"Braun Gábor" <braungb88@gmail.com>
Cc: 34404@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34404: 26.1; Finalizer in hash table run early?
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 16:45:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <366c6cbb-d9fe-d672-12f7-3f04987555ac@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sg8wtitq.fsf@gnus.org>
> This does seem like a bug... if Emacs is using a mark-and-sweep garbage
> collector, which I thought it did. But Andreas (in a different bug
> report) seemed to imply that Emacs uses a conservative garbage collector
> these days, and I see that there's some talk about that in the source
> code, but... it's documented to be a mark-and-sweep gc.
>
> So now I'm confused: Is Emacs still using a pure mark-and-sweep gc as
> the Emacs Internals section of the elisp manual says?
Conservative implies mark and sweep. You can't relocate objects in the
heap because that would invalidate any pointers from the stack.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-26 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-09 13:39 bug#34404: 26.1; Finalizer in hash table run early? Braun Gábor
2020-11-26 12:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-26 12:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-11-26 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-26 15:45 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2020-11-27 7:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-27 8:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-27 8:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-27 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-29 10:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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