From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: require inside functions.
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:12:22 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sm22gm8p.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3d5t65khw.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk
storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>> (require 'ft) only loads a file if 'ft is not in features. However,
>> it unconditionally adds '(require . ft) to current-load-list. If you
>> call a function with require a million times, this eats up 16 MB of
>> memory.
>
> The problem seems to be that current-load-list is never truncated.
> But I don't quite understand what current-load-list is good for
> (outside the byte compiler).
I don't understand it either, but ... if require doesn't actually load
the file, surely nothing at all should be added to `current-load-list'?
This seems like an out-and-out bug [and I notice my `current-load-list'
is also filled up entirely with largely redundant (require . xxx) entries.]
-Miles
--
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <yotly8c5jpi2.fsf@jpl.org>
2005-03-31 11:27 ` Changes in calendar/time-date.el (was: CVS update of gnus/lisp (4 files)) Reiner Steib
2005-03-31 12:20 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-31 12:58 ` Changes in calendar/time-date.el Lute Kamstra
2005-03-31 22:52 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-01 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-04 10:25 ` Reiner Steib
2005-04-04 10:57 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-04-04 12:09 ` Reiner Steib
2005-04-04 12:52 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-04-04 17:20 ` Reiner Steib
2005-04-04 19:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-05 7:14 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-05 9:33 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-05 10:06 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-07 12:47 ` require inside functions. (was: Changes in calendar/time-date.el) Lute Kamstra
2005-04-07 21:45 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-08 0:12 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2005-04-08 0:45 ` require inside functions Stefan Monnier
2005-04-08 2:09 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-08 0:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-08 3:22 ` require inside functions. (was: Changes in calendar/time-date.el) Richard Stallman
2005-04-08 8:12 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-09 3:38 ` require inside functions. (was: Changes in Richard Stallman
2005-04-09 9:30 ` require inside functions Lute Kamstra
2005-04-10 1:55 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-13 9:11 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-04-15 2:44 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-15 9:23 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-04-08 8:16 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-05 13:54 ` Changes in calendar/time-date.el Lute Kamstra
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