[Patches] GC infrastructure patch 1 (tp_recurse, tp_clear)

Greg Stein gstein@lyra.org
Fri, 16 Jun 2000 03:44:43 -0700


On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 05:57:39AM +0300, Moshe Zadka wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> 
> > This patch adds the type methods recurse and clear necessary for
> > my GC patch.  It is straightforward so hopefully it can be
> > applied right away.
> 
> a) As spammy as it sounds, you probably want to send this patch again with
> the legal mumbo-jumbo...
> 
> b) +0.5, because you are eating into 2 spare slots. Couldn't you just
> waste one, and have it point into a structure with those two functions?
> I'd certainly be +1 on that.

IMO, the two slots are much clearer. I don't think that we want to start
grouping this stuff up, just to combine a couple slots. It isn't like we are
proposing any other use for those slots right now.

+1 on Patch 1

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/