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Re: pdumper on Solaris 10


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: pdumper on Solaris 10
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 18:39:01 +0200

> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:21:13 +0100
> X-Spam-Status: No
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > All correct, but completely irrelevant to the issue at hand.
> 
> I was specifically addressing your "GC works, and works well".
> 
> A GC that takes big chunks of time on what is essentially a
> single-threaded execution engine and, even more significantly,
> introduces pauses that impacts user experience, does not work well, I
> would say that it barely works at all, in the sense that it is far from
> adequate for the kind of application Emacs is.
> 
> I mean, if igc is finally deemed a success, any effort directed at
> keeping GC at the expense of anything else would be work invested on a
> misfeature, IMHO.

This sub-thread was not about GC vs igc, it was about changes in GC
itself that would never come even close to igc.  Everything I wrote
should be assessed from that angle.




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