GNU bug report logs - #960
23.0.60; excess consing

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: rms <at> gnu.org

Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:15:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 917, 961

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: rms <at> gnu.org, 960 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#960: 23.0.60; excess consing
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:25:53 +0200

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 13:03, Richard M. Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> 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
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