GNU bug report logs - #68200
File local byte-compile-dynamic-docstrings:nil ignored?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>

Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 01:54:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 30.0.50

Done: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #45 received at 68200 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com, 68200 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 acm <at> muc.de
Subject: Re: bug#68200: 30.0.50; Emacs reloads init file when calling
 `documentation'
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2024 14:36:02 +0200
> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 21:22:16 +0000
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
>   Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>,
>   68200 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, acm <at> muc.de
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
> 
> In an age when a computer with 1 GB RAM is regarded as small indeed, why
> are we so concerned about the, at most, few hundred bytes occupied by
> each doc string?

Because RAM is always at premium, and because these things add up.

> Even if certain libraries were given adequate doc
> strings, that still wouldn't swell the occupied storage to more than...
> Well, I think there are around 40,000 defuns (etc.) in Emacs (I did scan
> the source files for this at one time).  If each doc string were on
> average 1024 bytes, that would come to around 40 MB.  That's negligible
> these days, surely.

No, 40MB is far from being negligible.

> Eli, what would you say to changing the default of the custom variable
> byte-compile-dynamic-docstrings to nil?

Why would that be useful? to hide bugs in code that doesn't work when
the variable is non-nil?

> And I'll have a look at why that variable no longer appears to be
> working (though I have rather a lot on in the next few days).

Thanks.




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