bug#34404: 26.1; Finalizer in hash table run early?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

>> So now I'm confused: Is Emacs still using a pure mark-and-sweep gc as
>> the Emacs Internals section of the elisp manual says?
>
> Conservative implies mark and sweep.  You can't relocate objects in the
> heap because that would invalidate any pointers from the stack.

But mark and sweep does not imply conservative -- you can have a mark
and sweep gc that will garbage-collect 100% of the garbage, which a
conservative gc typically will not.

The Emacs documentation seems to imply that Emacs has one of these 100%
garbage collectors, which is what this bug report is about, I think: The
user has an object that the gc should collect, but it's not collected
(always).

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