Re: Tooltips GC overhead

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 11:26:12 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Without some kind of quantitative criterion, this sounds irrational to
> > me.
> 
> I don't know -- adding gingerbread to Fcons, even if it's a small 
> inefficiency 
> now, is likely to lead to greater inefficiencies later as it will place more 
> design constraints on future attempts to improve performance.

Don't be ridiculous; all it takes is a single test followed by a
function call that is only made if the test succeeded (i.e. a profile
is in progress).  We do that all the time, and no one has ever looked
back.