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Re: Which is faster: narrow-to-region or delete-region?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Which is faster: narrow-to-region or delete-region? |
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Wed, 22 Sep 2021 10:41:33 +0300 |
> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 09:00:54 +0200
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> > bunch of variables and does little else. Moreover, it cannot trigger
> > GC, whereas delete-region method very well can.
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> That too, wasn't even thinking about that. I am not so familiar how GC works
> with code in C.
GC can be triggered in C code by any of the following:
. calling Lisp
. calling some primitives, like funcall, directly from C
. modifying text of some buffer
. calling a memory-allocation function such as xmalloc