From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, gerd.moellmann@gmail.com,
68200@debbugs.gnu.org, acm@muc.de
Subject: bug#68200: 30.0.50; Emacs reloads init file when calling `documentation'
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2024 14:36:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r0iqptu5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZZxniDKON97bG_ew@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Mon, 8 Jan 2024 21:22:16 +0000)
> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 21:22:16 +0000
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>,
> 68200@debbugs.gnu.org, acm@muc.de
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-09 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-02 1:53 bug#68200: 30.0.50; Emacs reloads init file when calling `documentation' Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-02 2:33 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-02 13:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-07 1:40 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-07 5:43 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-01-07 7:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-07 17:20 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-07 17:33 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-08 21:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-01-08 23:09 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-09 11:26 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-01-10 3:28 ` bug#68200: File local byte-compile-dynamic-docstrings:nil ignored (was: bug#68200: 30.0.50; Emacs reloads init file when calling `documentation') Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-11 17:59 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-01-09 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-01-11 18:10 ` bug#68200: 30.0.50; Emacs reloads init file when calling `documentation' Alan Mackenzie
2024-01-11 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-11 19:40 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-01-11 19:54 ` Stefan Kangas
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