From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs documentation sources
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:17:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <858x6reucb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailma\x04n.1375.1190879967.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:17:13 +0200
>>
>> Do you really claim the ephemeral size of the help buffer to be an
>> important consideration concerning the size of DOC strings?
>
> Do you really claim that the size of DOC strings is of no concern at
> all?
Since they reside in the .elc files and/or the DOC file and are only
ever loaded into memory temporarily when they are actually consulted,
they take up only disk space, not main memory. Just like the manual.
So yes, I disagree with the following claim of you that you made in
the thread and seemingly already forgot:
Doc strings not always target newbies, because they cannot be too
wordy (due to considerations of memory footprint of the running
Emacs).
The memory footprint of the running Emacs is not affected by DOC
strings since DOC strings from byte-compiled or preloaded files are
not kept in memory.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-27 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-26 8:04 Emacs documentation sources Dave Pawson
2007-09-26 9:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-26 17:43 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.1329.1190828635.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-26 18:07 ` Richard G Riley
2007-09-26 18:55 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-27 8:44 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.1306.1190798609.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-26 19:53 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-26 21:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1354.1190841494.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-27 6:17 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-27 7:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailma\x04n.1375.1190879967.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-27 20:17 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-09-28 8:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1419.1190967231.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-28 15:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-28 23:13 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-29 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1475.1191082767.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-29 17:00 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-29 19:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.1375.1190879967.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-28 15:31 ` Stefan Monnier
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