Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint

[Stefan Monnier]

>> but I note that even after killing most buffers and doing a gc, my emacs
>> (running for roughly 8 hours) still takes 341 MB... :[
> What happens if you map over load-history, unloading each feature
> mentioned there?

My guess is that checking the return value of `garbage-collect' would
probably indicate (without unloading anything) that such unloads cannot
recover anywhere near 300MB because the Lisp heap is much smaller
(i.e. the data comes from elsewhere).


        Stefan