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bug#34404: 26.1; Finalizer in hash table run early?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#34404: 26.1; Finalizer in hash table run early? |
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Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:23:09 +0200 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 08:56:33 +0100
> Cc: 34404@debbugs.gnu.org, Braun Gábor <braungb88@gmail.com>
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> 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).
The question is how do you define "100%"? The Emacs GC is
conservative in the sense that when there's a doubt whether an object
_could_ be still referenced, we mark it so it doesn't get swept.