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Re: space leak from `values'
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: space leak from `values' |
Date: |
28 Jul 2004 13:42:13 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
> I bet most people don't know that `values' even exists, let alone what
> conses onto it!
Completely agreed.
> It seems basically unclean to let something like that grow
> unboundedly, even if it doesn't keep a significant part of the heap
> live, and especially as it's pretty obscure.
I'd vote for removing it, but IIRC some people argued for keeping it last
time this came up. So I suggest we replace the lisp with a ring.
Still, it should have a different name to avoid surprises (like
`values-of-last-interactive-evaluations').
Stefan