Re: Forthcoming revisions to the garbage collector; crazy huge hack
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Stephen J. Turnbull stated:
>>>>> "Nix" == Nix
<nix(a)esperi.demon.co.uk> writes:
Nix> Myself, I'm still slightly worried about what this will do to
Nix> the weird old architectures XEmacs presumably still builds
Nix> on.
Don't worry; for released XEmacsen your collector will surely go in as
a configure option at first. If they still are in use but can't use
your collector, so be it---the configure option won't work for them.
In practice, this means that part of the patch would go in; probably
most of it, but not the GCPRO-junking bit. When it works for lots of
people, we can junk GCPRO anyway.
(After all, you can't junk GCPRO with a configure option; the horrible
thing is too pervasive. :( )
Thanks for the pointer to Richard's outline; I'll have a look at
it. There are only so many ways to implement the GC layer, so probably
I'll be quite happy with the way Richard's doing it and can pitch in
there. (This means that some of the really boring stuff will have been
done for me :) )
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