From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:38:34 +0200 Message-ID: <83r3wk8lv9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <75bnpd79hn.fsf@tuxproject.de> <545AB96A.8070402@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417379951 4721 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2014 20:39:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 20:39:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 30 21:39:04 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XvBGq-0006JP-1X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 21:39:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51720 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvBGp-00080t-KK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 15:39:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50062) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvBGX-00080e-RN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 15:38:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvBGP-00059d-Sz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 15:38:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:56377) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvBGP-00059M-L6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 15:38:37 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NFV00000CRJMD00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:36:29 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NFV00JXED8TZU60@mtaout29.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:36:29 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101336 Archived-At: > From: Bug Dout > Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:27:36 -0800 > > I noticed the same thing. The version I was using before, 24.3, was a > real memory hog...I just thought it was normal. By accident, in trying > to find a Windows version of 24.4, I downloaded 25.0.50.1 > (x86_64-w64-mingw32) and it uses a small fraction of the other version's > footprint. > > Nikolay Kudryavtsev writes: > > > Just tested 24.4.51 x 64 from BitBucket and it is as much a memory hog > > as the same version of emacs-w64. So this bug is not compiler > > specific. > > > > 25.0.50 from the same source is fine. My crystal ball says you are both looking at the wrong measure of memory. Emacs 24 and before _reserved_ 1.6GB of memory, but didn't commit more than it actually needed. So it was never a memory hog. Emacs 25 changed the way it allocates memory on Windows, so it no longer needs to reserve anything.