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Re: The speed of Emacs 21
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: The speed of Emacs 21 |
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Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:29:39 +0200 (IST) |
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Miles Bader wrote:
> Gerd recently turned on some string debugging code in alloc.c (see
> GC_CHECK_STRING_BYTES). When that happened I noticed an obvious
> slowdown
Yes, this is turned on by default to hunt an elusive memory-related
bug. It certainly slows down Emacs significantly. However, it does
not explain the massive consing that John reports (assuming that the
previous versions didn't do all that consing).