Re: Weird memory consumption libnked to frame font spec

[Stefan Monnier]

>> There's something funny with our memory consumption.
>> Here is a recipe to show the problem, tho it uses mpc.el (and requires
>> an mpd daemon running), so you may find it rather inconvenient to try
>> and reproduce it.  Hopefully I'll find a way to get rid of this mpc.el
>> dependency to reproduce the bug, but for now, that's what we have:

>> - emacs -Q --eval '(dotimes (i 10 (other-frame 1)) (make-frame (quote ((font 
>> . "Sans")))))' -l ~/src/elisp/mpc/mpc.el -f mpc

> Do you see the same memory increase with an actual font
> family (e.g. "dejavu sans") instead of such a generic
> family name?

Yes, that makes no difference.


        Stefan