From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bug Dout Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:27:36 -0800 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <75bnpd79hn.fsf@tuxproject.de> <545AB96A.8070402@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417377232 29336 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2014 19:53:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 19:53:52 +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 20:53:46 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 1XvAYz-0002Te-9t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 20:53:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51595 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvAYy-00046M-QP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 14:53:44 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: JXU34znqcKwqIlWjKRoxww.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (windows-nt) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:UBsmPtY0wbiwxk32F3ayEhUtbKY= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:209040 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 14:53:20 -0500 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:101328 Archived-At: 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. -- One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. ~ Josef Stalin