From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: tom@logand.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: funcall consing
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2021 23:47:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1n3WIU-0004ML-B1@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8335m8hazn.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 31 Dec 2021 20:42:36 +0200)
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> > The `80' indicats the GC has been invoked 80 times. That is the direct
> > indication of "consing".
> Why are you saying that the number of times GC has been invoked is the
> direct indication of consing?
It used to be the case, and maybe still is that the decision on
whether to call GC on any given occasion was controlled by how much
space had been allocated since the previous GC. If that is true
nowadays, then calling GC roughly measures the amount of consing.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-01 4:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-31 11:01 funcall consing Tomas Hlavaty
2021-12-31 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-31 15:09 ` LdBeth
2021-12-31 17:00 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-12-31 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-01 4:47 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-01-01 7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-02 13:30 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2022-01-02 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-02 15:59 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2022-01-02 18:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-01 4:51 ` LdBeth
2022-01-01 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-01 17:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-01 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-31 14:27 ` LdBeth
2021-12-31 16:56 ` Tomas Hlavaty
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