From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com
Cc: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lots and lots of symbols interned by calc
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:17:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871ve7tkr0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sk6n4ayf.fsf@vh213601.truman.edu> (Jay Belanger's message of "Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:08:08 -0500")
Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com> writes:
>> I have found the memory used by emacs goes up monotonously, for example,
>> my current emacs session (up for 1 day 5 hours) takes up 101M with no
>> visiting files. It is the third most memory hungry application right
>> after the browser and a pdf viewer.
>>
>> I have found calc interned lots and lots of symbols (for example:
>> abs\(1:\), Help\ on\ Stack, etc) into obarray. To see it:
>
> Those are menu entries. I'm a bit surprised that they are interned, but
> I don't think Calc does anything unusual in creating its menus.
Anyway, I don't see how such symbols can take up so much memory. Maybe
Leo can experiment to see if a session that does not run calc has the
same problem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-22 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-22 16:58 Lots and lots of symbols interned by calc Leo
2010-04-22 18:08 ` Jay Belanger
2010-04-22 18:17 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2010-04-22 19:14 ` Leo
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