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Re: Memory leaks
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Memory leaks |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:35:18 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>> 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.
Stefan
- 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 <=
- Re: Memory leaks, Andreas Schwab, 2011/03/08
- Re: Memory leaks, Richard Stallman, 2011/03/08
- Re: Memory leaks, David Kastrup, 2011/03/09