Subject: Re: bug#960: 23.0.60; excess consing

From: "Juanma Barranquero" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:25:53 +0200

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 13:03, Richard M. Stallman <[email-masked]> wrote:

>    (defun gc-info ()
>      (interactive)
>      (message "C=%s S=%s(%s) V=%s SYM=%s MISC=%s INT=%s"

> Just typing M-* repeatedly I see that cons-cells-consed increases by
> about 130, and string-chars-consed increases by around 160.  This seems
> unreasonably much, for running a command that does no consing itself.

`message' calls `format', which calls `copy-sequence'... Isn't that a
source of consing?

 Juanma