From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Opportunistic GC Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:52:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27417"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, akrl@sdf.org To: Pip Cet Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 10 06:53:25 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lJrmf-000704-F9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2021 06:53:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43528 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lJrme-00085Y-Ht for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:53:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36870) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lJrmA-0007eG-Te for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:52:54 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56345) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lJrmA-0000JV-6K; Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:52:54 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lJrm9-0001H0-0e; Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:52:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Pip Cet on Tue, 9 Mar 2021 08:11:34 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:266265 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > I see a potential problem: maybe not all current or future supported > > platforms have this feature. > Do you mean `fork' or `clone'? If it's the latter, we can just use > `fork' and miss out on a very slight optimization. I say this in reference to `clone'. I was not sure what problem there would be if we made Emacs use `clone' and the system's kernel does not implement it. The point is that people should not neglect to consider what will happen on such systems. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)