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Re: Free images based on allocated memory
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Free images based on allocated memory |
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Wed, 30 Jan 2019 04:40:54 -0500 |
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> Recently there was a discussion about how to limit the amount of memory
> the pdf-tools package uses by means of the image-cache.
The same problem affects doc-view, BTW.
> For this I've added a draft patch, which has some drawbacks:
> 1. The accounting is frame-local, which means the cache could still grow
> unbounded as a function of the number of frames.
Why do you keep the counter in the frame/cache rather than in (say)
a global variable or inside the terminal object?
Stefan