From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Building Emacs overflowed pure space Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:35:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <7dbe73ed0607180138x35e9d9bft3e42f20cb369795c@mail.gmail.com> <200607181855.k6IItgAV027751@jane.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153283752 21939 80.91.229.2 (19 Jul 2006 04:35:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 04:35:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mathias.dahl@gmail.com, ralphm@members.fsf.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 19 06:35:49 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G33ml-0006jH-LQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:35:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G33mk-0003Hf-VF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:35:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G33mY-0003Dh-N7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:35:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G33mX-0003DQ-9T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:35:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G33mX-0003DL-4L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:35:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.54] (helo=tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G33pX-0004Af-KG; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:38:39 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([70.53.192.251]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060719043530.TKIU13241.tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net@localhost>; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:35:30 -0400 Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 95AA26C348; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:35:35 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:51:41 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57317 Archived-At: >> I'm not sure what size other people get, but my `emacs' binary is never >> smaller than 2MB (by a long shot), so even if one counts the worst case >> 20KB of wasted space (10KB * 2 (64bit growth factor)), it's still less than >> 1%. Not much to worry about. > We've been through this: memory waste is not measured in percents in > my book, it's measured in bytes. You must have an earlier edition. Stefan