From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Memory leaks
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:57:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3aah6yopk.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvei6il4re.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:35:18 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>>> I have begun to wonder if obarray gets freed after buffer-local-var stops
>>>> pointing to it, say through another setq to buffer-local-var.
>>> Obarrays are ordinary vectors, that get garbage collected like any other
>>> object.
>> I didn't think the vectors themselves would be in trouble, but rather what
>> is behind the vectors: the buckets, the symbols and so on. Even after the
>> vectors are gone, there could be references to the symbols in other places,
>> could there not? So, it is not entirely clear when all that memory could
>> be collected?
>
> But then you'd have lots of symbols, not lots of vectors.
Unless those symbols have lots of vectors as some of their values.
Andreas.
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-03 17:13 Memory leaks Uday S Reddy
2011-03-03 17:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-03-03 18:00 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-03-03 23:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-03-04 11:39 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-03-04 12:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-04 12:59 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-03-07 19:19 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-03-07 20:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-03-07 22:27 ` David Kastrup
2011-03-07 22:49 ` David Kastrup
2011-03-09 0:39 ` Richard Stallman
2011-03-07 23:01 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-03-08 2:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-08 8:57 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2011-03-09 0:40 ` Richard Stallman
2011-03-09 6:07 ` David Kastrup
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2020-11-10 1:24 memory leaks Madhu
2020-11-10 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-20 7:23 Madhu
2019-09-20 8:00 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-09-20 8:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.572.1568967069.2190.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2019-09-20 8:31 ` Madhu
2019-09-20 9:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2020-09-12 13:02 ` Madhu
2020-09-12 13:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-12 13:55 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-09-12 14:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-12 19:14 ` Igor Sosa Mayor
2020-09-12 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-12 19:28 ` Igor Sosa Mayor
2020-09-13 2:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-13 3:17 ` Madhu
2020-09-13 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-21 9:28 ` Madhu
2020-09-13 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-14 10:06 ` Madhu
2020-11-09 17:50 ` Madhu
2022-03-04 11:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-06 10:59 ` Madhu
2022-03-06 11:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2009-08-08 18:57 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-10 8:08 ` Daniel Clemente
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