Re: PURESIZE increased (again)

[David Kastrup]

Ken Raeburn <address@hidden> writes:

> On Apr 27, 2006, at 16:38, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Comparison of your GDB session with mine shows that each time a .el
>> file is loaded, it uses up the exact same amount of pure storage in
>> your build as in mine.  But every .elc file takes more pure storage on
>> your machine, sometimes only by 1KB, sometimes by as much as 20KB.
>
> That is weird.  Perhaps output from (garbage-collect) before and
> after loading the individual .elc files would show something useful?
> The byte and object counts *should* be the same (uh, unless the
> pathnames to the elc files are stored somewhere but el file pathnames
> are not).

Not necessarily.  Most filenames are written to accommodate 8+3. so if
we have 12345678.el\0, this is twelve bytes.  The same with .elc might
require sixteen bytes after alignment.

But it is more likely that some byte code internals cause trouble.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum