Re: Dynamic loading progress

[Paul Eggert]

Philipp Stephani wrote:
> Modules will
> typically be used to wrap existing C or C++ libraries or make heavy use of
> such libraries, and those libraries won't use an Emacs-specific allocator.

It's quite likely that wrappers will need to allocate memory to marshal data 
back and forth between C and Elisp.  If I wanted to build a module to use GMP, 
for example, I'd want to use GMP's low-level primitives that don't do memory 
management, and have the wrapper manage memory itself.

I suppose some wrappers won't need to manage memory at all, but I'd say most 
libraries need memory, and the overall system will benefit from having a single 
memory manager rather than having each library manage its own memory independently.

Have you used the Emacs memory profiler?