Hi Eli, Eli Zaretskii via web <issues.guix.gnu....@elephly.net> skribis:
> Please don't use "memory profile" as any indication of the Emacs memory > usage: it is entirely unrelated to memory. > > The Emacs profiler only profiles CPU usage. It samples the PC register using > a special signal (SIGPROF), which is the usual method of sampling CPU in > profilers. For those systems which don't have SIGPROF, it can fall back on > sampling the CPU whenever Emacs calls one of the memory allocation functions > -- this is called "mem" profiling. > > So the "memory" profiles shown here don't show memory usage. Understood, that’s the same thing as Guile’s ‘gcprof’. :-) Thanks for your feedback, Ludo’.
