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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9d8d065: Add support for finalizers
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Daniel Colascione |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9d8d065: Add support for finalizers |
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Tue, 03 Mar 2015 09:08:54 -0800 |
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On 03/03/2015 09:03 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Was this discussed on emacs-devel and I missed it?
No.
> Question: why use a doubly-linked list, unlike pretty much everything
> else in our code base?
We remove finalizers from the middle of the list in unchain_finalizer.
We could just rebuild the list as we scan it, but when we'd have to
touch every node. Or we could maintain auxiliary state, but then in
run_finalizers we'd have to scan the whole list instead of the part
we're running.
>> + DEFVAR_BOOL ("gc-precise-p", gc_precise_p,
>
> This name is wrong. "-p" stands for "predicate" and a predicate is
> a function that returns a boolean, whereas this is a variable/constant.
I've also seen it for boolean-valued variables.
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