Re: How to debug memory leaks

[Stefan Monnier]

>> It's unlikely.
> Yet, it happened--more than once (did you notice that I said "my Emacs
> setup" and not "Emacs"?). The good news: it's not happening anymore :)

"unlikely" that this is a memory leak.  Not unlikely that it happens.

> Mono font, and Emacs behaved well. It was really loading the TAGS which
> added like 400 MB on the stack (virtual and resident--yeah, sounds unlikely,
> right?). Therefore, I went to look for an alternative.

Using a lot of memory is not the same as having a memory leak.

When you take a bath you will typically consume several hundred liters
of water.  Would you call that a leak?


        Stefan