Re: Tooltips GC overhead

[Paul Eggert]

martin rudalics wrote:
> Does that mean I have to recompile all elisp files?

No, just the .o files, src/temacs, src/bootstrap-emacs, and src/emacs.

> Anyway.  If you do `profiler-start', move the mouse over your mode line
> for a few seconds so that tooltips show up a couple of times and then do
> `profiler-report' and look at the results: Can you tell me from your
> report where `tooltip-show' allocates more than half of the bytes it
> allocates if _not_ in `x-show-tip'?

I presume those bytes are allocated directly by tooltip-show.  By "directly" I 
mean via a function written in C, e.g., "cons".