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Re: frames vs. weak hash tables and garbage collection
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Joe Wells |
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Re: frames vs. weak hash tables and garbage collection |
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Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:20:40 +0100 |
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Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> But it seems that `values' is never flushed, so it is a source of leaks.
> We should probably fix it (I'd remove it since almost noone even knows
> that
> it exists, but I guess Richard uses it once in a blue moon).
>
> I don't use it myself. I put it in because a history of values
> is a useful thing for any read-eval-print loop. We could delete it,
> but it might be better to do more to inform people about it.
> For instance, mention it in the text in the *scratch* buffer.
>
> Then they might indeed find it useful. Or if they don't,
> we could delete it.
>
> I agree with the suggestion to truncate it to a specified maximum
> length. How about 40?
Personally, I can't remember using anything more than (car values).
Maybe once I used something older than the most recent addition to the
list.
So it seems to me a length of 3 would probably be plenty.
By the way, the name “values” is not good. I would suggest
“eval-expression-recent-values”.
--
Joe
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