Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9d8d065: Add support for finalizers

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>]

>> Question: why use a doubly-linked list, unlike pretty much everything
>> else in our code base?
> We remove finalizers from the middle of the list in unchain_finalizer.
> We could just rebuild the list as we scan it, but when we'd have to
> touch every node. Or we could maintain auxiliary state, but then in
> run_finalizers we'd have to scan the whole list instead of the part
> we're running.

You can remove them from the middle of the list with a singly-linked
list as well, by keeping a "double-indirection" pointer.  That's what we
do for markers.
It's not ideal, but it's no worse than using doubly-linked lists.

>>> +  DEFVAR_BOOL ("gc-precise-p", gc_precise_p,
>> This name is wrong.  "-p" stands for "predicate" and a predicate is
>> a function that returns a boolean, whereas this is a variable/constant.
> I've also seen it for boolean-valued variables.

Oh, yes, you're not the only one introducing such horrors, but we should
still avoid making things worse in this respect.


        Stefan