Re: Not protecting Lisp objects from GC

[Gerd Möllmann]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 03:46:21 -0600
>> 
>> As I said in Bug#75521, I'll reiterate here for the record: I believe we
>> should remove DEFVAR_LISP_NOPRO and avoid pursuing these kinds of
>> optimizations.
>
> And as I said in that bug's discussion, I'm not interested in
> improving the old GC where the existing code works well and is not
> understood very well by the active maintainers.  

The effects and unmaintainability of what I referred to it very well
known. One doesn't have to be a rocket engineer to fix these cases.