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Re: Opportunistic GC


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Opportunistic GC
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:52:53 -0500

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  > > I see a potential problem: maybe not all current or future supported
  > > platforms have this feature.

  > Do you mean `fork' or `clone'? If it's the latter, we can just use
  > `fork' and miss out on a very slight optimization.

I say this in reference to `clone'.  I was not sure what problem there
would be if we made Emacs use `clone' and the system's kernel does not
implement it.  The point is that people should not neglect to consider
what will happen on such systems.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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