Re: Let's get effective!

[larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)]

Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

> I trust you are optimizing for reduced memory usage also?

You'd be wrong to trust me to do anything.  :-)

Anyways, I've now hacked up alloc.c to defvar all the interesting
alloc variables and I've hacked up elp.el to profile using these
variables to monitor for consing, stringsing, vectoring and so on.  It
even looks like it might be working!  

We'll see what comes of it.

I've done some slight calculation on what how much memory Gnus should
theoretically use for each article in a group.  The answer is:

(+ (* (+ 6 10 20) 8) 200 200)
  => 688 bytes

That means that Emacs should grow with half a meg when entering a 1000
article group the first time.  I think we can all agree that Emacs
grows quite a bit more.

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