From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xue Fuqiao Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: About "consing" Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:23:12 +0800 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <20130228222312.c355b99ca133f630b9b735f6@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1362061432 12833 80.91.229.3 (28 Feb 2013 14:23:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:23:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 28 15:24:16 2013 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 1UB4P8-0007Hn-TM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:24:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40588 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UB4Ok-0001De-P3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:23:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52409) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UB4OY-0001DS-Ha for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:23:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UB4OV-0003rB-1t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:23:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-f53.google.com ([209.85.220.53]:36028) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UB4OU-0003r1-Qj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:23:34 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-pa0-f53.google.com with SMTP id bg4so1165587pad.12 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 06:23:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:organization:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bq08+v4gGmI9bimgLGddD/fTUcbonLTnXQvKDonxFXc=; b=Bt1byC9Dc9VGZiWu57yTGQcqUlggD9g7pK5O1p3HkgIr68h4Nfa640PZOxBC21qnFE f9yTHIABwOTyxPlcdEV5CP+yelLVzR6AzK1kSXiQSgi4li0YH4fUxXNXXdN5pxcr8pYY OpulOoJhXokA9RQv57b2No5Bvgc9J/y4dnDV/bC7SNSVVP98nQQbZlvifyDxB0MxOygk QxA41iVQ6fgeNOUpwODLv5h2QIUSo5qqNofxaeGoN9B1AQExjW9FeyP+50U1CaYa4cD4 BBxpCLpdUXDcPKqiAIbTkJdGqTb3eDcIXbarMsSgPuOjeYCZ2NcIlR6lWVaamZ0QXT1O BtQQ== X-Received: by 10.66.147.137 with SMTP id tk9mr13512047pab.106.1362061414122; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 06:23:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Emacs ([123.114.130.98]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id iv3sm8506723pbc.40.2013.02.28.06.23.22 (version=TLSv1.1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 28 Feb 2013 06:23:33 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.24.13; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.220.53 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:89289 Archived-At: 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