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Re: Emacs Slowdown


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Emacs Slowdown
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:50:34 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> Forget the memory-usage profile, it doesn't measure what you think it
> does, and is mostly useless, except in very specialized situations,
> and then for people who really understand what this means (I don't).

Agreed (except maybe for the "I don't" part ;-), we should at least
"hide" it.  It was mostly a hack to work around the lack of timer-based
sampling in some platform in the early versions of the profiler code.


        Stefan




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