Re: Question about bignum usage

["Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>]

Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 20 2024, Gerd Möllmann wrote:
>
>> Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> the second is bytes. The number of fonts is also curious.
>>>
>>>   PVEC_FONT                                90422        10868392
>>>
>>> But all seem to be GC'd eventually.
>>
>> FWIW, I'm attaching the Lisp that I currently use to display this stuff.
>> Something hacked together. M-x igc-stats displays a buffer in which one
>> can take two snapshots of igc-info, display them, sompare them, trigger
>> GC and so on.
>
> Thanks!  That's quite nice.
>
>> The PVEC_FONT stuff is impressive :-) 
>
> There don't seem to be so many PVEC_FONT objects here.  After
> startup (with my normal .emacs):
>
> PVEC_FONT                                 1251          151824
>
> and then after opening igc.c and moving around a bit:
>
> PVEC_FONT                                 1968          238312

That's interesting! I'm also using my normal init.el, so I'm just using
the igc branch in the way I use Emacs day by day. It's apparently not a
problem, but I wonder what's going on...