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From: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: narrowing considered harmful
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:42:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1r4g257nw.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1u84drir.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:43:37 -0400")

On 2013-06-15 10:43 +0800, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I wouldn't worry about it.  It can even be a bad idea (set-marker to
> nil requires scanning the whole list of markers, so it can take a while.
> It can be more efficient to let the GC collect them later on).
>
>
>         Stefan

Good to know this. The manual contains this:

,----[ (info "(elisp)Overview of Markers") ]
|      ;; When you are finished using a marker, make it point nowhere.
|      (set-marker m1 nil)
|           => #<marker in no buffer>
`----

Should that be changed?

Leo



  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-16 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-03  5:43 putting double quotes efficiently C K Kashyap
2013-06-03  7:26 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-06-03  7:55   ` Andreas Röhler
2013-06-03  8:03     ` C K Kashyap
2013-06-03  9:10       ` Andreas Röhler
2013-06-03 11:52         ` C K Kashyap
     [not found]       ` <mailman.918.1370250440.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-13 14:40         ` narrowing considered harmful (was: putting double quotes efficiently) Stefan Monnier
2013-06-14  3:54           ` narrowing considered harmful Leo Liu
2013-06-14 13:00             ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-14 16:51               ` Leo Liu
2013-06-15  2:43                 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-16 16:42                   ` Leo Liu [this message]
2013-06-17 14:56                     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-17 15:20                       ` Drew Adams
2013-06-17 16:48                         ` Stefan Monnier

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