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Subject: Re: Building Emacs overflowed pure space
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> Cc: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  rms@gnu.org,
> 	  ralphm@members.fsf.org,  mathias.dahl@gmail.com
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:56:36 -0400
> 
> 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.