From: Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:35:02 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Changes to garbage-collect, new var strings-consed,
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.90~5509
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fc91dc2d13870ab95bf81ec7b228227249e02a19;p=emacs.git

Changes to garbage-collect, new var strings-consed,
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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 5c57e6b6ec3..905d71b9437 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1258,6 +1258,15 @@ Other properties are ignored.
 
 ** keywordp is a new predicate to test efficiently for an object being
 a keyword symbol.
+
+** Changes to garbage collection
+
+*** The function garbage-collect now additionally returns the number
+of live and free strings.
+
+*** There is a new variable `strings-consed' holding the number of
+strings that have been consed so far.
+
 
 * New Lisp-level Display features in Emacs 21.1