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Subject: Re: [patch] `x-toolbar.el': `Info-frame-plist'
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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 25 Sep 1997 03:28:44 +0200
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karlheg@inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:

>     Hrvoje> Nothing.  Nothing special should happen, either.  The
>     Hrvoje> point is that the info frame comes up of the desired size,
>     Hrvoje> and that you can customize it.
> 
>  It will depend upon when the defcustom'd variable gets initialized,
>  right?  Whether it happens when the file loads, or if it got dumped
>  into XEmacs...  Hmm.

If it gets dumped, it gets dumped.  So what?

>  It looks like it will get initialized at dump time, since `x-toolbar'
>  is listed in `dumped-lisp.el'.  Ok, so when it gets redefined at
>  startup by a user's configuration, what happens to the section of RAM
>  that it used to sit in?  It's dead weight, right?

It goes on free list after the first garbage collection.  That's how
Lisp works.

>  Hmm.  I guess we lose 5 cons cells?
>  Are there dumped things that are not copied to un--gc'd purespace?

I don't think anything but the stuff copied with `purecopy' goes to
un-gc'd purespace.  So we don't lose 5 conses.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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"A Real Programmer's code can awe with its fiendish brilliance, even
as its crockishness appalls."

