Re: Tooltips GC overhead

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:40:25 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> Cc: emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> 
>  >> Is the tree printing routine deficient?
>  >
>  > Yes.  Please try 'configure --with-wide-int'.  We really should make that 
> the default.
> 
> Does that mean I have to recompile all elisp files?

No, of course not.  Otherwise, how would an Emacs tarball made on a
64-bit platform work out of the box on a 32-bit platform?

> Because just doing
> that (on Windows 32) followed by `make' makes the number appear more or
> less the same and the percentages mostly negative.  For example, I now
> get
> 
>      - tooltip-show                                        37,978,113  -9%
>        - x-show-tip                                         17,048,133  -8%

I think this is what Paul alluded to.

> The numbers on my Debian 64 Gtk build are roughly the same (although the
> percentages show up correctly there).

The --with-wide-int option is a no-op in 64-bit builds, AFAIK.