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Re: cl-lib warnings


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: cl-lib warnings
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2023 20:14:13 +0200

> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
> Cc: lekktu@gmail.com,  joaotavora@gmail.com,  juri@linkov.net,
>   monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2023 10:58:06 -0700
> 
> > 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?

I don't think I understand the question.  What do you mean by "target"
here?



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