From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: funcall consing Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2021 23:47:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ee5tm422.fsf@logand.com> <83fsq9gdhw.fsf@gnu.org> <8335m8hazn.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28812"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: tom@logand.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 01 05:49:11 2022 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 1n3WKN-0007LO-C1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2022 05:49:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48194 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n3WKM-0006NQ-0X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2021 23:49:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59296) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n3WIY-0002jB-2V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2021 23:47:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=48308 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n3WIU-00016t-Dt; Fri, 31 Dec 2021 23:47:14 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=tmMfmuoqPkLQBJe0DoUS1AMvAI6kouBMCsRR3L+q3ww=; b=CW1Q8ljrUwGJ k35ImfIsJTnxbNVK+RDErQ9YbJY39sO6MzW10EKC6G/bmBXxjC5Y7ykRUa7SFZ+Ul1/wVmMshkmLF dU1SA8Id3CMdW+2gWqBCa0x+fzAlstQPit4SFr4hbyO3Vsd0zbtFUI7Jo/YejsUkek49tjwQQgcQz iH96AhzwdP+2KNUMtkCvBbcDPwsepbB4TuTwY6yVGP+0qUDmOKcVvpH0DEOp9CqRqWiFEqzcKRbuR XHVFCZjlqjCjRyUwpObmTVnybsjpvcaqkNREGwUZpUPSTdDE74M+TPPnmdAalRhu6nmC4nSU9eFG8 4XssxyzEGZGR5IPT5MvoMA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n3WIU-0004ML-B1; Fri, 31 Dec 2021 23:47:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <8335m8hazn.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 31 Dec 2021 20:42:36 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:283780 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > The `80' indicats the GC has been invoked 80 times. That is the direct > > indication of "consing". > Why are you saying that the number of times GC has been invoked is the > direct indication of consing? It used to be the case, and maybe still is that the decision on whether to call GC on any given occasion was controlled by how much space had been allocated since the previous GC. If that is true nowadays, then calling GC roughly measures the amount of consing. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)