From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Memory usage report Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 17:00:53 +0300 Message-ID: <83k0wr4222.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lfh8kyot.fsf@gnus.org> <83k0ws5hzt.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7rwkxtk.fsf@gnus.org> <83imcb61p7.fsf@gnu.org> <871rizl5mf.fsf@gnus.org> <83r1qz48h3.fsf@gnu.org> <871rizjogr.fsf@gnus.org> <83pn6j45rr.fsf@gnu.org> <87wo0ri6kz.fsf@gnus.org> <83o8m34433.fsf@gnu.org> <87imcb43e3.fsf@localhost> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22379"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ihor Radchenko Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 18 16:02:10 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kJGxm-0005ho-3n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:02:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48038 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kJGxk-00052c-WE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:02:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54426) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kJGwa-00049e-El for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:00:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47605) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kJGwY-0006kB-Sr; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:00:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2150 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kJGwK-0007Yg-V0; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:00:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87imcb43e3.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Fri, 18 Sep 2020 21:32:04 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:256089 Archived-At: > From: Ihor Radchenko > Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 21:32:04 +0800 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > I guess I don't understand the utility of knowing, e.g., which Lisp > > string in the current session is the longest one. What would you do > > with such information? > > Knowing a buffer with largest total memory occupied by buffer-local > variables might be useful. Well, Lars basically said the same, but neither of you explain _why_ would something like that be useful. Do tell, please.