From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Cc: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ruby: enable garbage collection using talloc
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 05:54:05 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871r98u6he.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ke5tehj.fsf@tethera.net>
David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> We basically steal all the objects from their notmuch parents, therefore
>> they are completely under Ruby's gc control.
>>
>> The order at which these objects are freed does not matter any more,
>> because destroying the database does not destroy all the children
>> objects, since they belong to Ruby now.
>>
>
> I guess from a purist point of view this is a kind of layering
> violation, since the use of talloc is purportedly an internal
> implementation detail of the library. Still, I think it's a reasonable
> approach given that the ruby bindings are maintained as part of notmuch,
> and we are not very likely to abandon talloc.
>
One issue to double check: in a few places we explicitely _don't_ use
talloc. What happens when those objects are passed to talloc_steal?
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-11 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-17 19:39 [PATCH 0/2] ruby: enable garbage collection Felipe Contreras
2021-05-17 19:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] ruby: create an actual wrapper struct Felipe Contreras
2021-07-18 22:58 ` David Bremner
2021-05-17 19:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] ruby: enable garbage collection using talloc Felipe Contreras
2021-06-11 0:46 ` David Bremner
2021-06-11 8:54 ` David Bremner [this message]
2021-06-26 19:07 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-26 19:54 ` David Bremner
2021-06-26 20:05 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-26 18:56 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-26 19:56 ` David Bremner
2021-05-22 10:49 ` [PATCH 0/2] ruby: enable garbage collection David Bremner
2021-05-28 3:10 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-26 20:07 ` [PATCH] perf-test: add ruby test Felipe Contreras
2021-07-18 22:54 ` David Bremner
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