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bug#30626: 26.0.91; Crash when traversing a `stream-of-directory-files'
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Michael Heerdegen |
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bug#30626: 26.0.91; Crash when traversing a `stream-of-directory-files' |
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Thu, 01 Mar 2018 17:54:57 +0100 |
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Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:
> Agreed, but could you please open a new thread for it? AFAICT, this
> bug thread is about streams.el functions producing structures
> proportional in size to the length of the entire stream, which is a
> bug in itself, regardless of whether or not the GC can handle the
> result.
No, it is a feature: we want streams to produce these structures,
streams are delayed lists, not just iterators. Lists are also
potentially unlimited nested conses, and that's not a bug. Streams are
the same realized with delayed conses.
Michael.