Re: New features + feature freeze?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

Wes Hardaker <hardaker@ece.ucdavis.edu> writes:

> No no...  It grows by 1Mb EVERY time I run Gnus. 

Oh.  That's not good.  If you're reading nnmh groups, you'll get
bitten by the insert-file-contents/gc bug...

> |> But what do you mean by "zero out some of the larger ones"?  Zero out
> |> variables?  
> 
> Yeah.  Set them to 'nil.  Particularily things like gnus-newsrc-alist,
> which is reloaded when Gnus is re-run, so its pointless to keep the
> information store in them. 

`gnus-clear-system' does set most Gnus variables to nil on exit.  Even
if it didn't do that, Emacs shouldn't grow each time you start Gnus.
That's what we have garbage collection to handle...

> |> Home is where the cat is.
> 
> You obviously don't let your cat wander around outside like most of
> mine do.  Hell, some times I've owned cats that live in 3 or 4 houses
> (or who ever will feed him).  ;-)

I've been cat-less for a while now, and am just expressing my sorrow
at not having a home since I don't have a cat.  *Sob*.

Well, I'll live.  Just not happily.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen