From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23178 invoked by alias); 29 Apr 2014 11:51:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 23163 invoked by uid 89); 29 Apr 2014 11:51:22 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: plane.gmane.org Received: from plane.gmane.org (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:51:20 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wf6Z6-0004Fm-TS for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:51:12 +0200 Received: from pluto.bordeaux.inria.fr ([193.50.110.57]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:51:12 +0200 Received: from ludo by pluto.bordeaux.inria.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:51:12 +0200 To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] Remove Guile mark functions that don't mark anything Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:51:00 -0000 Message-ID: <871twgtkux.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1397060028-18158-1-git-send-email-wingo@igalia.com> <1397060028-18158-8-git-send-email-wingo@igalia.com> <87eh0ws2w1.fsf@igalia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 10 =?utf-8?Q?Flor=C3=A9al?= an 222 de la =?utf-8?Q?R?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.130009 (Ma Gnus v0.9) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-04/txt/msg00609.txt.bz2 Doug Evans skribis: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Andy Wingo 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’.