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From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Which is faster: narrow-to-region or delete-region?
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 10:53:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB9PR09MB49861D31A92EFED5AEAA231E96A29@DB9PR09MB4986.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ilytvyz6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 22 Sep 2021 03:41:36 -0400")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 09:00:54 +0200
>> 
>> > bunch of variables and does little else.  Moreover, it cannot trigger
>> > GC, whereas delete-region method very well can.
>> 
>> That too, wasn't even thinking about that. I am not so familiar how GC works
>> with code in C.
>
> GC can be triggered in C code by any of the following:
>
>   . calling Lisp
>   . calling some primitives, like funcall, directly from C
>   . modifying text of some buffer
>   . calling a memory-allocation function such as xmalloc

Allright, thank you. Noted in my notebook! :).



      reply	other threads:[~2021-09-22  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-21 20:10 Which is faster: narrow-to-region or delete-region? Arthur Miller
2021-09-22  5:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-22  7:00   ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-22  7:41     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-22  8:53       ` Arthur Miller [this message]

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