Re: Tooltips GC overhead

[martin rudalics]

>> Showing a tooltip here incurs one or two garbage collection cycles.
>
> I need to show a tooltip 3 times before GC kicks in.

That's what I get with emacs -Q and no files visited.  With more buffers
and files visited things get worse soon.

> Looking at the value returned by garbage-collect might give some
> ideas.

I tried that before and it's hardly instructive.  Less characters and
considerably less intervals consed than on the average.  As expected, I
think.

Thanks for trying, martin