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Re: [EXPERIMENT] Emacs with the SpiderMonkey garbage collector


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: [EXPERIMENT] Emacs with the SpiderMonkey garbage collector
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 17:13:38 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

I must say, this is quite an experiment!

I'm not sure what we should do with it, tho:

- I don't think building Emacs by preprocessing all files through
  a C->C++ converter is going to be a very popular proposition
  (e.g. will make debugging the "C" code even more fun).

- Using a precise GC with the current code base is unrealistic:
  a mostly moving GC is possible, but a fully moving GC would require
  a preprocessing step (see above point).


        Stefan




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