Re: ’inherit’ and list-dependent (was Re: branch master updated: gnu: emacs: Add TREE_SITTER_GRAMMAR_PATH support.)

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

On Sat, 25 Feb 2023 at 19:10, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

>>> In effect that means keeping back the chain of inherited objects, which
>>> would lead to space leaks.

[...]

>> What do you mean by “space leaks”?
>
> Unbounded memory usage: each copy of an object is linked back to its
> “parent” (“previous generation”).

As Gábor, I miss some details. :-) And I do not understand what would be
these “space leak” since what I am suggesting is somehow done with all
Python 2 packages using package-with-python2
(package-with-explicit-python) for example.

Cheers,
simon