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Re: Memory leaks
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Memory leaks |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:57:11 +0100 |
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Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> I have begun to wonder if obarray gets freed after buffer-local-var stops
>>>> pointing to it, say through another setq to buffer-local-var.
>>> Obarrays are ordinary vectors, that get garbage collected like any other
>>> object.
>> I didn't think the vectors themselves would be in trouble, but rather what
>> is behind the vectors: the buckets, the symbols and so on. Even after the
>> vectors are gone, there could be references to the symbols in other places,
>> could there not? So, it is not entirely clear when all that memory could
>> be collected?
>
> But then you'd have lots of symbols, not lots of vectors.
Unless those symbols have lots of vectors as some of their values.
Andreas.
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- Re: Memory leaks, (continued)
- Re: Memory leaks, Uday S Reddy, 2011/03/07
- Re: Memory leaks, Andreas Schwab, 2011/03/07
- Re: Memory leaks, David Kastrup, 2011/03/07
- Re: Memory leaks, David Kastrup, 2011/03/07
- Re: Memory leaks, Richard Stallman, 2011/03/08
- Re: Memory leaks, Uday S Reddy, 2011/03/07
- Re: Memory leaks, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/07
- Re: Memory leaks,
Andreas Schwab <=
- Re: Memory leaks, Richard Stallman, 2011/03/08
- Re: Memory leaks, David Kastrup, 2011/03/09