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bug#31852: Make memory-limit obsolete
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#31852: Make memory-limit obsolete |
Date: |
Sat, 16 Jun 2018 18:02:03 +0300 |
> Cc: 31852@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 06:38:55 -0700
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I don't understand what we gain by declaring
> > this tiny function obsolete
>
> Nobody uses the function (clearly, since it doesn't work) so we gain
> simplicity,
> which is a win.
If nobody uses the function, I see no gain at all, because obsoleting
a function tells those who use it not to.
> > Wouldn't it be enough just to add to the function's
> > documentation a note that the estimation should be expected to be
> > inaccurate with modern memory-management technologies?
>
> Complicating the documentation would work against the goal of
> simplicity.
Then let's just move this to Lisp, and do nothing else. That's even
simpler, IMO.