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From: "Gábor Boskovits" <gboskovits@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Tropin <andrew@trop.in>,
	 Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>,
	Guix Devel <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 20:27:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAqdTgPK9ZaO84CXirFAP+STP5wFxA6M7me+-4uhtrjFvCbKoQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h6v9wr8f.fsf@gnu.org>

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Hello,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> ezt írta (időpont: 2023. febr. 25., Szo
19:10):

> 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”).
>
How much heavier is this than the links to inputs?

Regards, g_bor

>
> Ludo’.
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-25 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <167610269975.14308.10330520524841229243@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
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
2023-02-25 19:27                 ` Gábor Boskovits [this message]
2023-02-27  9:59                 ` Simon Tournier

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