From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What improvements would be truly useful? Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 11:33:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87inaiss6l.fsf@web.de> <6FCF6ACA-4F29-4B6B-BE9D-D7130C6E9495@gnu.org> <87fu5moe4c.fsf@web.de> <877eqyocro.fsf@web.de> <83zi3uz4nb.fsf@gnu.org> <0b1dd3fa-e0b0-ed20-a256-dd92d1c1826f@dancol.org> <8bc3c4c7-dfc7-987a-95e7-bd309e2326c6@cs.ucla.edu> <03118DC0-39DA-4AB5-980E-A33809B9A5EE@raeburn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520267537 1939 195.159.176.226 (5 Mar 2018 16:32:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 16:32:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 05 17:32:13 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1est1v-0007R8-38 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 17:32:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50292 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1est3x-0007ad-Sf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 11:34:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57367) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1est3K-0007aJ-Qx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 11:33:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1est3H-0001TL-NH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 11:33:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=57885 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1est3H-0001Sk-G2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 11:33:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1est1C-0002P3-5C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 17:31:18 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:R79C1DmrSkXLxta9gJrHBjca3YQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223283 Archived-At: > An improvement in GC wouldn't be a bad thing, but it may not be worth > the effort. Making the recursion use an explicitly managed stack should be a fairly simple change, which will fix some crashes. I agree that it's probably not worth trying to be too fancy, but it's really just a bug fix. Stefan