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non-recursive GC marking [PATCH]

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com, mattiase <at> acm.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 54698 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#54698: non-recursive GC marking [PATCH]
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 19:58:44 +0800

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> I don't think we should recommend doing this.  It has serious
> deleterious effects on the operating system, because many programs
> written for GNU/Linux depends on the current behaviour (where malloc-ing
> basically never ever fails).

They will either get killed by the out-of-memory killer when overcommit
is on, or they will abort (or crash) on failed malloc.  IME all except
for some special niche programs work with overcommit off.

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