From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@catern.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] Add gc-estimated-time variable
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 20:10:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v9dxw9dr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201122050829.9097-1-sbaugh@catern.com> (message from Spencer Baugh on Sun, 22 Nov 2020 00:08:27 -0500)
> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@catern.com>
> Cc: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@catern.com>,
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 00:08:27 -0500
>
> + /* Decay very fast, since heap size can change rapidly. */
> + gc_time_ema = 0.5 * gc_time_ema + 0.5 * timespectod (this_gc_elapsed);
> + Vgc_estimated_time = make_float (gc_time_ema);
> + DEFVAR_LISP ("gc-estimated-time", Vgc_estimated_time,
> + doc: /* An estimate of the time required for the next garbage collection.
I guess "Estimated time before next garbage collection" is somewhat
clearer, since "required" in this context might be confusing?
> +The time is in seconds as a floating point value.
> +This is calculated as an exponential moving average of the time
> +required for previous garbage collections. */);
I don't think the last sentence should be in the doc string. it
doesn't add anything useful, and the source code is available.
Thanks.
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2020-11-18 0:20 ` Eager garbage collection Spencer Baugh
2020-11-18 0:20 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add gc-estimated-time variable Spencer Baugh
2020-11-18 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-18 0:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add garbage-collect-maybe function Spencer Baugh
2020-11-18 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-18 0:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] Start opportunistic GC timer at startup Spencer Baugh
2020-11-18 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-18 3:45 ` Eager garbage collection Stefan Monnier
2020-11-18 4:05 ` Spencer Baugh
2020-11-18 4:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-18 8:02 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-11-18 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-18 15:30 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-11-18 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-18 17:26 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-11-18 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-18 18:19 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-11-18 15:19 ` Spencer Baugh
2020-11-18 15:47 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-11-18 16:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-18 17:12 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-11-18 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-18 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-22 5:07 ` Spencer Baugh
2020-11-22 5:08 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] Add gc-estimated-time variable Spencer Baugh
2020-11-22 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-11-22 19:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-22 5:08 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] Add garbage-collect-maybe function Spencer Baugh
2020-11-22 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-22 5:08 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] Start opportunistic GC timer at startup Spencer Baugh
2020-12-04 23:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-05 7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-05 13:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-05 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-05 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-22 15:13 ` Eager garbage collection Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-16 4:11 sbaugh
2020-11-16 15:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-16 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-16 18:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-18 18:00 ` yyoncho
2020-11-18 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-18 21:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-18 21:59 ` Stefan Monnier
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