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26.0.91; Crash when traversing a `stream-of-directory-files'

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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>, 30626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30626: 26.0.91; Crash when traversing a `stream-of-directory-files'
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 08:08:55 +0100

Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Maybe I've misunderstood, but is it not the case that iterating over
> (stream-range 1 n) should require only a constant amount of memory,
> regardless of the value of n?

Depends on your definition of `require'.  Like, for example,

  (dolist (i 1000000) (message "%S" (cons i (1+ i))))

each iteration step creates and discards a new cons (or a constant
number of conses).  Not a exceptional thing in Lisp.  When iterating
over (stream-range 1 n), the garbage collector seems to have problems
with how the garbage is structured.


Michael.

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