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> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:08:22 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Well, Lars basically said the same, but neither of you explain _why_
> > would something like that be useful.  Do tell, please.
> 
> If you see that you've got 13GBs worth of cons cells, you might wonder
> what variable that's holding on to them.

In that case, yes.  But I don't think we've ever seen such a
situation.