Re: Pretest note

[Chong Yidong]

Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:

>> (dotimes (n 50000)
>>  (with-temp-buffer
>>    (insert-file-contents "/path/to/emacs/etc/NEWS")))
>> 
>> If Emacs on Mac OS really never returns memory, this should chew up
>> all the memory on your system.  Does it?  Check also if Emacs 23 is
>> affected.
>
> I don't see much difference.
> After executing, Emacs 23 uses 33.9 Mbyte real memory, 41.2 virtual.
> Emacs trunk: 35.4/42.8
>
> Garbage-collect after the run has no effect.

Then memory can be returned, at least in some circumstances.  Otherwise
50,000 copies of NEWS would take up 3GB of memory.