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Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:

> Not surprisingly, searching came out high on top (no surprise), but
> garbage collection and kill-all-local-variables dominated the scene.
> This made me wonder why killing the local variables was needed so
> much?  I would think that you merely add to them or don't?  I'm
> wondering if this is a major source of the garbage collection that is
> taking place (doubt it) and if they can be reduced?

[...]

> kill-all-local-variables                            293      4.531     1824

This function should normally only be called when a new major mode is
instated, but I guess you don't have 1824 different buffers, huh?

Is it Gnus that's calling this function all the time?

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