From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: About "consing"
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:23:12 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130228222312.c355b99ca133f630b9b735f6@gmail.com> (raw)
In the doc string of the function `memory-use-counts':
Return a list of counters that measure how much consing there has been.
I don't know what the "consing" means here. I only know that `cons' is often
used to add a single element to the front of a list. But this seems to be
irrelevant to the topic.
And in (info "(elisp) Garbage Collection"):
-- Function: memory-use-counts
This returns a list of numbers that count the number of objects
created in this Emacs session.
Does "consing" mean creating an object here? Thanks.
--
Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XueFuqiao
next reply other threads:[~2013-02-28 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-28 14:23 Xue Fuqiao [this message]
2013-02-28 14:43 ` About "consing" Doug Lewan
2013-02-28 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-28 15:05 ` Kevin Rodgers
2013-02-28 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.21101.1362063945.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-02-28 16:10 ` Barry Margolin
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