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scratch/igc: Delete unused macro DEFVAR_LISP_NOPROX
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Message #145 received at 75521 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:52:13 +0000
> From: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> protonmail.com>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>, 75521 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>
> "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> NSTATICS was last increased by Paul in 2013 (4195afc389bb).
> >
> > Actually, it was a year before, but I don't see how that changes the
> > fact that redundant protecting should be avoided.
>
> That sentence is the straw that broke the camel's back.
>
> It's not a fact, it's an individual opinion which virtually everyone
> else disagrees with (for very good reasons). I certainly do. Literally
> the only argument that has been advanced to support this *opinion* is
> that removing the *three* remaining _NOPROs (which are, at this point,
> NOT redundant, but buggy) would somehow cause us to run out of NSTATICS,
> which would mean more than doubling our staticpro calls overnight,
> adding more than a thousand staticpros.
It isn't an opinion. Wasting memory is bad, period.
We could argue whether 3 slots in staticvec is a significant waste or
not, and that would be a matter of opinion, but Stefan's question was
why do we do it, and I answered that.
All your other arguments are about something else, and are definitely
opinions. (Though I don't understand since when or why "opinion"
became a derogatory word around here.)
> If diverging opinions are described as contradicting alleged "facts",
> there is no point discussing this further.
Then don't.
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