Re: cl-lib warnings

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Fri 06 Jan 2023 at 09:34AM +02, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> The "almost always" is not a numerical criterion, its "almost" part is
> intended to cover the cases where the package is _always_ loaded at
> startup, but only in some configurations of Emacs.  Like something
> that happens only in GTK builds.  So counting the number of Lisp
> packages that require cl-lib is not going to change my mind.

Okay, thanks.

> In general, I'm worried by IMO too nonchalant attitude towards
> preloading more and more into Emacs.  We should actively try to keep
> the memory footprint of the Emacs process in check.  It is true that
> each package we add increases the footprint by a small amount, but
> those small amounts eventually add up to a sum that is significant.
> On my system starting "emacs -q" with various versions of Emacs
> produces the following memory footprint values:
>
>   emacs 22.1  10.6 MiB
>   emacs 23.1  11.5 MiB
>   emacs 24.1  13.4 MiB
>   emacs 25.1  32.5 MiB
>   emacs 26.1  35.5 MiB
>   emacs 27.1  25.1 MiB
>   emacs 28.2  26.7 MiB
>
> Granted, not all of the increase is due to preloading more Lisp, but
> some of it is, and so IMO we should resist the temptation to add more
> just because it saves us some 'require's.

What sort of target do you think we should have?

-- 
Sean Whitton