GNU bug report logs - #68244
hash-table improvements

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Message #35 received at 68244 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
Cc: dmitry <at> gutov.dev, 68244 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#68244: hash-table improvements
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2024 13:51:51 +0200

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 12:34:05 +0100
> Cc: 68244 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>  Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
>  Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> 
> Buffer memory is indeed treated differently and does not advance the GC clock as far as I can tell. Presumably the reasoning is that buffer size changes make a poor proxy for object deaths.

Buffer memory is usually allocated via mmap (nowadays, implicitly by
libc), which is why it is treated differently.

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