From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com>
Cc: rudi@constantly.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: using finalizers
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2022 22:08:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1n4aBp-000705-3B@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735m5r6x5.fsf@logand.com> (message from Tomas Hlavaty on Mon, 03 Jan 2022 01:37:10 +0100)
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> > ”If you rely on the garbage collector to release non-memory resources as
> > a side effect of reclaiming memory, you will run out of resources if you
> > increase the main memory of your system.”
That would be true if the criterion for when to GC is that "memory is
running low". Increase the total memory size, and it won't run low
very often, so GC will happen less often.
But in Emacs GC is triggered by allocating a certain amount of memory.
Thus, the thing that would hold the non-memory resources too long
is increasing gc-cons-threshold.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-04 3:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-30 22:43 using finalizers Tomas Hlavaty
2021-12-31 2:46 ` LdBeth
2021-12-31 3:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-31 3:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-31 4:30 ` LdBeth
2021-12-31 4:43 ` LdBeth
2021-12-31 6:28 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-12-31 10:59 ` LdBeth
2021-12-31 11:18 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-12-31 11:41 ` LdBeth
2021-12-31 12:01 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2022-01-01 17:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-01 20:25 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2022-01-01 20:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-01 22:55 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2022-01-01 23:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-01 23:47 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2022-01-01 23:26 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-12-31 7:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-31 9:31 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-12-31 12:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-01 17:58 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2022-01-01 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-01 20:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-01 23:05 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2022-01-01 23:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-31 14:23 ` Rudolf Schlatte
2021-12-31 16:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-01 17:37 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2022-01-01 22:36 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2022-01-02 6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-02 7:53 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2022-01-02 8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-02 13:10 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2022-01-02 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-02 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-02 17:18 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2022-01-02 18:11 ` Rudolf Schlatte
2022-01-03 0:37 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2022-01-04 3:08 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2021-12-31 14:39 ` LdBeth
2022-01-01 17:59 ` Tomas Hlavaty
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