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Re: Eager garbage collection
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Eager garbage collection |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:06:48 +0200 |
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 08:02:17 +0000
> From: Andrea Corallo via "Emacs development discussions."
> <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> My question is, what is the advantage of this implementation respect the
> pure Lisp one we have?
>
> <https://gitlab.com/koral/gcmh/-/blob/master/gcmh.el>
>
> AFAIU they achieve the same. If that's the case I indeed prefer the
> Lisp one as simpler and easier to extend.
AFAICT, the basic idea is very different, so the results will probably
also be different.
In general, I cannot say I like the idea of enlarging the GC threshold
based on some heuristic ideas regarding when it matters and when it
doesn't. There be dragons.
- [PATCH 2/3] Add garbage-collect-maybe function, (continued)
- [PATCH 1/3] Add gc-estimated-time variable, Spencer Baugh, 2020/11/17
- Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add gc-estimated-time variable, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/18
- [PATCH 3/3] Start opportunistic GC timer at startup, Spencer Baugh, 2020/11/17
- Re: [PATCH 3/3] Start opportunistic GC timer at startup, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/18
- Re: Eager garbage collection, Stefan Monnier, 2020/11/17
- Re: Eager garbage collection, Spencer Baugh, 2020/11/17
- Re: Eager garbage collection, Stefan Monnier, 2020/11/17
- Re: Eager garbage collection, Andrea Corallo, 2020/11/18
- Re: Eager garbage collection,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Eager garbage collection, Andrea Corallo, 2020/11/18
- Re: Eager garbage collection, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/18
- Re: Eager garbage collection, Andrea Corallo, 2020/11/18
- Re: Eager garbage collection, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/18
- Re: Eager garbage collection, Andrea Corallo, 2020/11/18
- Re: Eager garbage collection, Spencer Baugh, 2020/11/18
- Re: Eager garbage collection, Andrea Corallo, 2020/11/18
- Re: Eager garbage collection, Stefan Monnier, 2020/11/18
- Re: Eager garbage collection, Andrea Corallo, 2020/11/18
- Re: Eager garbage collection, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/18