From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24984 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wes Hardaker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: why so many kill-all-local-variables Date: 01 Sep 1999 09:59:41 -0700 Organization: U.C.Davis, Information Technology - D.C.A.S. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162453 11666 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:07:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:07:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA14117 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:00:17 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAB23122; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 12:00:16 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 01 Sep 1999 12:00:51 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA17798 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 12:00:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from homestyle.dcn.davis.ca.us (hardaker@homestyle.dcn.davis.ca.us [168.150.190.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA14090 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 12:59:42 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from hardaker@localhost) by homestyle.dcn.davis.ca.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA01812; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 09:59:42 -0700 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-URL: http://dcas.ucdavis.edu/~hardaker X-Face: #qW^}a%m*T^{A:Cp}$R\"38+d}41-Z}uU8,r%F#c#s:~Nzp0G9](s?,K49KJ]s"*7gvRgA SrAvQc4@/}L7Qc=w{)]ACO\R{LF@S{pXfojjjGg6c;q6{~C}CxC^^&~(F]`1W)%9j/iS/ IM",B1M.?{w8ckLTYD'`|kTr\i\cgY)P4 In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "27 Aug 1999 23:38:17 +0200" Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) XEmacs/21.2(beta8) (Artemis) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24984 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24984 >>>>> On 27 Aug 1999 23:38:17 +0200, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen said: Lars> Wes Hardaker writes: >> Not surprisingly, searching came out high on top (no surprise), but >> garbage collection and kill-all-local-variables dominated the scene. >> This made me wonder why killing the local variables was needed so >> much? I would think that you merely add to them or don't? I'm >> wondering if this is a major source of the garbage collection that is >> taking place (doubt it) and if they can be reduced? Lars> [...] >> kill-all-local-variables 293 4.531 1824 Lars> This function should normally only be called when a new major mode is Lars> instated, but I guess you don't have 1824 different buffers, huh? Lars> Is it Gnus that's calling this function all the time? Why is it needed at the beginning of a major mode? Why kill all the local variables? Aren't you doing it from new buffers 99% of the time? (and, no, I don't, of course) -- "Ninjas aren't dangerous. They're more afraid of you than you are of them."