From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Tropin <andrew@trop.in>,
Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>,
guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ’inherit’ and list-dependent (was Re: branch master updated: gnu: emacs: Add TREE_SITTER_GRAMMAR_PATH support.)
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 19:10:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h6v9wr8f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86fsayukiv.fsf@gmail.com> (Simon Tournier's message of "Wed, 22 Feb 2023 10:17:12 +0100")
Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 at 23:55, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>>> However, we could imagine to use ’package/inherit’ or another variant
>>> instead of plain ’inherit’ for creating these inherited packages. Doing
>>> so, we could collect some information, e.g., in the field ’properties’,
>>> which could be used then by --list-dependent.
>>
>> In effect that means keeping back the chain of inherited objects, which
>> would lead to space leaks.
>
> [...]
>
>> I agree it’d be nice to solve. I can’t think of a good way to do that
>> though.
>
> What do you mean by “space leaks”?
Unbounded memory usage: each copy of an object is linked back to its
“parent” (“previous generation”).
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-25 18:11 UTC|newest]
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2023-02-11 11:29 ` branch master updated: gnu: emacs: Add TREE_SITTER_GRAMMAR_PATH support Christopher Baines
2023-02-11 12:35 ` Andrew Tropin
2023-02-11 16:54 ` Andrew Tropin
2023-02-12 0:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-02-12 4:24 ` Andrew Tropin
2023-02-14 12:23 ` ’inherit’ and list-dependent (was Re: branch master updated: gnu: emacs: Add TREE_SITTER_GRAMMAR_PATH support.) Simon Tournier
2023-02-14 19:36 ` Gábor Boskovits
2023-02-21 22:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-02-22 9:17 ` Simon Tournier
2023-02-25 18:10 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2023-02-25 19:27 ` Gábor Boskovits
2023-02-27 9:59 ` Simon Tournier
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