From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Let's make the GC safe and iterative (Was: Re: bug#30626) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 15:29:38 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <8bc3c4c7-dfc7-987a-95e7-bd309e2326c6@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87inaiss6l.fsf@web.de> <6FCF6ACA-4F29-4B6B-BE9D-D7130C6E9495@gnu.org> <87fu5moe4c.fsf@web.de> <877eqyocro.fsf@web.de> <83zi3uz4nb.fsf@gnu.org> <0b1dd3fa-e0b0-ed20-a256-dd92d1c1826f@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1519946871 32118 195.159.176.226 (1 Mar 2018 23:27:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 23:27:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 To: Daniel Colascione , Emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 02 00:27:47 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1erXc2-0007bZ-Mt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:27:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59755 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erXe3-0006hK-Ge for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:29:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51153) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erXdx-0006gv-47 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:29:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erXdu-0001b2-0N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:29:45 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:45008) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erXdt-0001T2-QX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:29:41 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DAE3161637; Thu, 1 Mar 2018 15:29:39 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id Eaw0wRgAjz4f; Thu, 1 Mar 2018 15:29:38 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4C0A161699; Thu, 1 Mar 2018 15:29:38 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id mFyDmDqySXv6; Thu, 1 Mar 2018 15:29:38 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BFDDD161625; Thu, 1 Mar 2018 15:29:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <0b1dd3fa-e0b0-ed20-a256-dd92d1c1826f@dancol.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223203 Archived-At: On 03/01/2018 03:22 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: > What do you think? Thanks, I like the idea. I suggest implementing the naive version first. Although the more-elaborate versions saves virtual memory, it's not clear that it'd be an overall performance win in the typical case, so my guess is that it's better to start simple.