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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dmitrii Korobeinikov <dim1212k@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Garbage collector: is 800kb a good default?
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:05:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvo8s032hv.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+Yh0SR6GR6mttMLRx+TKj8Z5wB61YCm9Wn8QD-tpHu4U_+MMQ@mail.gmail.com> (Dmitrii Korobeinikov's message of "Thu, 9 Apr 2020 20:46:53 +0600")

> Maybe it would be possible to garbage collect in chunks and check
> after each chunk for input?

It's called "incremental GC".  XEmacs does it this way.  It'd be nice
to have, indeed.  It's often not too hard to go from "incremental" to
"concurrent", tho, so I think if we want to go there we should aim for
a concurrent GC.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-09 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-09 11:59 Garbage collector: is 800kb a good default? Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-09 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-09 13:44   ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-09 14:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-09 14:46       ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-09 16:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-10 16:40           ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-09 19:05         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-04-10 16:26           ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-09 18:48     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-10 14:26   ` Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
2020-04-10 16:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-10 18:26       ` Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
2020-04-10 18:53         ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-09 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-09 14:20   ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-09 14:23   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-09 18:42     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-09 19:08       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-09 19:31         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-10  6:19           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-10 13:03             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-10 13:42               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-10 14:34                 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-10 14:38                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-10 15:37                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-10 15:52                   ` Andrea Corallo
2020-04-10 16:45                     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-10 17:18                       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-04-09 14:48   ` Andrea Corallo

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