From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] Remove Guile mark functions that don't mark anything
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871twgtkux.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP9bCMTp5F32EVQr+0ODX32S_Tin+4k1VPcoR6k9F=CHtn_dFQ@mail.gmail.com>
Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com> skribis:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com> wrote:
>> Just FYI, mark functions are actively harmful, and should be avoided if
>> possible. They slow down allocation, slow down GC, and, more
>> importantly, are very tricky to write correctly. See:
>>
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2011-11/msg00069.html
>
> This sounds like it's *critical* to document somewhere in the Guile
> docs, at least including the smob writer docs. Did I miss it?
I tried a bit of that for 2.0.10 in response to a discussion we had:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?id=f07c349eb38d6c7b160b8980fc4007fb502e3433
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-29 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-09 16:14 [PATCH 0/8] Cleanups to Guile extension interface Andy Wingo
2014-04-09 16:14 ` [PATCH 2/9] Define and export Guile classes for all GDB object types Andy Wingo
2014-04-12 18:32 ` Doug Evans
2014-04-09 16:14 ` [PATCH 5/9] Rename "gsmob" in Guile interface to "gdb object" Andy Wingo
2014-04-12 18:46 ` Doug Evans
2014-04-17 9:39 ` Andy Wingo
2014-04-17 9:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-09 16:14 ` [PATCH 3/9] Fix excess parentheses in Guile extension examples Andy Wingo
2014-04-09 16:14 ` [PATCH 7/9] Remove Guile mark functions that don't mark anything Andy Wingo
2014-04-12 19:29 ` Doug Evans
2014-04-17 9:48 ` Andy Wingo
2014-04-20 19:34 ` Doug Evans
2014-04-22 7:40 ` Andy Wingo
2014-04-29 11:51 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-04-09 16:14 ` [PATCH 4/9] Fix typos in documentation of Guile `execute' function Andy Wingo
2014-04-09 16:14 ` [PATCH 6/9] Remove Guile GDB object property mechanism Andy Wingo
2014-04-12 19:23 ` Doug Evans
2014-04-17 9:54 ` Andy Wingo
2014-04-09 16:14 ` [PATCH 1/9] Allow GDB to build against unreleased Guile 2.2 Andy Wingo
2014-04-12 16:40 ` Doug Evans
2014-04-12 16:47 ` Doug Evans
2014-04-17 9:04 ` Andy Wingo
2014-04-09 16:14 ` [PATCH 8/9] Remove useless Guile SMOB marking functions Andy Wingo
2014-04-12 19:50 ` Doug Evans
2014-04-09 16:14 ` [PATCH 9/9] Remove a useless Guile finalizer Andy Wingo
2014-04-12 20:18 ` Doug Evans
2014-04-14 12:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-04-14 21:39 ` Doug Evans
2014-04-15 9:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-04-15 15:30 ` Doug Evans
2014-04-17 10:07 ` Andy Wingo
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-04-09 16:09 [PATCH 0/8] Cleanups to Guile extension interface Andy Wingo
2014-04-09 16:09 ` [PATCH 7/9] Remove Guile mark functions that don't mark anything Andy Wingo
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