Re: Memory usage report

[Stefan Monnier]

> This can't be reported accurately, really, but...  does Emacs already
> have a command that tries to visualise this for users?  There's
>
> (garbage-collect)
> =>
> ((conses 16 6833300 570188)
>  (symbols 48 43826 42)
>  (strings 32 599007 230739)
>  (string-bytes 1 57524636)
>  (vectors 16 77428)
>  (vector-slots 8 2510954 524038)
>  (floats 8 6607 6143)
>  (intervals 56 1505503 18066)
>  (buffers 992 207))
>
> but that leaves a lot out,

Yes, that's a very serious shortcoming.

>  and isn't very user friendly.

GNU ELPA has `memory-usage` which makes this more user-friendly (and
adds a bit more information, tho far from enough in many cases).


        Stefan