Re: Is there any change on GC algorithm ever cince 19.28?
Kenichi Okuyama <okuyama(a)trl.ibm.co.jp> writes:
I'm intrested in xemacs newest version, especially on part of
Garbage Collection. And I would like to know if there is any
changes made ever since 19.28. Is it re-written ( with basically
same algorithm? ), or is it totally new?
There has never been any such thing as XEmacs 19.28. The GC algorithm
has been practically the same old mark-and-sweep since Emacs
beginnings in the mists of time. Our implementation, however, has
been vastly improved somewhat by mly for lemacs 19.8.
Long ago, when emacs was 19.28 ( and mule was 2.3 ), I made a little
hack on alloc.c . It's still available on
http://nagahashi-www.isl.titech.ac.jp/~okuyama/html/program/Mule-2.3-allo...
(this is for Mule version of emacs, so it might not work properly on
emacs, though I don't beleave so).
I wondered if the same hack works on current version of xemacs.
I was unable to access this ("The requested URL
/~okuyama/html/program/Mule-2.3-alloc.c.dir/Version-1.0/alloc.c was
not found on this server."), but I don't think the hack will work
unchanged. You will have to do your homework and actually look at
XEmacs src/alloc.c.
I'm asking this because I'm having trouble with accessing to
xemacs's newest version, Because
1) I have no idea which one is the newest.
The latest released version: 20.4
The latest pre-21.0 beta: 21.0-b45/pre2 "Thuringian"
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