Re: Forthcoming revisions to the garbage collector; crazy huge hack
Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Nix> Given Moore's Law and the fact that machines with small
amounts of
Nix> memory are getting steadily harder to find and steadily harder to run
Nix> late versions of XEmacs on (and probably don't see many upgrades
Nix> anyway), I am happy to *increase* the number of GCPROs substantially, to
Nix> ensure that we can freely modify arbitrary functions without triggering
Nix> GC hell. After all, GCPROs are really quite efficiently implemented;
You're complaining about how slow xemacs is, and also "it's ok for me
to make it a little slower".
It's OK to make XEmacs a little bit slower but eliminate
disruptive pause is the reason behind adopting incremental
GC.
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Yoshiki Hayashi