Re: Lots and lots of symbols interned by calc

[Chong Yidong]

Jay Belanger <address@hidden> writes:

>> I have found the memory used by emacs goes up monotonously, for example,
>> my current emacs session (up for 1 day 5 hours) takes up 101M with no
>> visiting files. It is the third most memory hungry application right
>> after the browser and a pdf viewer.
>>
>> I have found calc interned lots and lots of symbols (for example:
>> abs\(1:\), Help\ on\ Stack, etc) into obarray. To see it:
>
> Those are menu entries.  I'm a bit surprised that they are interned, but
> I don't think Calc does anything unusual in creating its menus.

Anyway, I don't see how such symbols can take up so much memory.  Maybe
Leo can experiment to see if a session that does not run calc has the
same problem.